“it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.” FeelingsRunningEarthSportsWindAll ThingsSpeedMilesIceToesBladesLiftingSplitting Book:Wings on my feet Source: Wings on my feet
“Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.” FunnySportsHoursComedyBallsMilesRacquetball Author:Brian Regan
“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.” ThinkingMayStillsTwoBigsSportsBehindsMillionsThousandSafeShotsRedRiversTownsSafetyMadSouthSoldierBlowMilesPassingPassingsInsaneBoatSecureConvinceMarchHelplessBulletsFamily And FriendsFloatsMississippiParrotsNavigationMississippi RiverGood SportsSteamboats Author:William Tecumseh Sherman