Olympic Triangle/length of Windward Leg and Course

Famous quotes containing the words olympic, length and/or leg:

    “Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
    —Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

    “At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore
    He paused, a wide and melancholy waste
    Of putrid marshes.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “I keep thinking that what I need
    to do is buy my leg back.
    Surely it is for sale somewhere,
    poor broken tool, poor ornament.
    It might be in a store somewhere beside a lady’s scarf.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)