“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.” IfsMadeSaidTwoThreeChanceSeaExampleTenRiversTwentiesFoundationAssumingFinalsCaughtFishesBoatThirtyLakesFishingFortyArrangements Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good as I've ever been around. I had always heard about night games at Tiger Stadium and had never gotten the chance to call one. It was really special to be a part of that and then the game, my gosh, how can anybody ever forget that. The fourth quarter and LSU's final drive, that's something I'll always remember.” RememberNightGamesChanceForgetEnvironmentHeardSpecialFootballCollegeFinalsQuartersFourthFloridaTigersStadiumsCollege FootballLsuFourth QuarterTiger Stadium Author:Verne Lundquist
“Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.” MomentsChanceCasesSuccessfulInformationFinalsSeekingLawyerTrialsHeatOpponentsMissilesCargoTrial Lawyers Book:The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win Source: The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win
“The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.” ChanceFourThirdsCourtFinalsSeedsPresidentialWimbledonNcaa Author:Ralph Nader