Athlete Quote by J. Frank Dobie Download Open image “Luck is being ready for the chance.” — J. Frank Dobie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Chance Inspirational Luck Ready
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When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation,… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
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I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
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