Thousand Yards

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or yards:

“A thousand friends when you’re paying the bills, but none to be seen when you’ve got ills.”
—Chinese proverb.

Rhyme.

“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)