I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
“My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.”
“The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”