Fumble Quotes
32 quotes by 26 authors
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
— John Heisman
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Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're…
— Anne McCaffrey
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If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may…
— Joe Scarborough
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The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with…
— Woody Hayes
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Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.
— Jeff Stilson
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I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit…
— Jeff Stilson
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What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.…
— John Heisman
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I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me
— Patrice Motsepe
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
— Mark Twain
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are…
— Christopher Guest
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Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.
— Dante Hall
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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...
— Robert Frost
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Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope…
— Margaret Weis
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What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And…
— Robin McKinley
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The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make…
— Jodi Picoult
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble…
— Heinrich Böll
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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
— John Heisman
Who Wrote These Fumble Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 32 Fumble Quotes, led by these top contributors: