Sailing Quotes
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When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.
Jochen Zeitz
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If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.
Dennis Conner
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My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont
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In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
Dennis Conner
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
Hannah Mills
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Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy's on St. Armand's Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.
Craig Sager
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Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.
Billy Rose
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My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner
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For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate’er the final harbor be’T is good to sail upon the sea!
John Kendrick Bangs
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The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
Fernando Pessoa
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Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
Bo Derek
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe
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Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
Kirsty Gallacher
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With these new boats and our veteran crew of American sailors, I feel this is one of the best campaigns I've ever put together. The bare hull of USA-77 just left Newport, Rhode Island two weeks ago and here she is going sailing today, which is true testament to how hard our whole team has worked to make this day possible,
Dennis Conner
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My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
Albert Einstein
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You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
Leroy Chiao
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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
Dave Anderson
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Judy, 8, is watching TV He tells Judy, 'Better pack it in, sweetie. Another big day tomorrow: we're going to go to the beach and sailing.' But his voice comes out listless, and perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything.
John Updike
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In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.
James Spithill
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Fritz Sauckel
