A Quote by Cus D'Amato

People who are born round don't die square.

Cus D'Amato

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Born Die People Round Square

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Cus D'Amato
American - Coach
January 17, 1908 - November 4, 1985

Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.

Jamie Hyneman

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

George Berkeley

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Willie Stargell

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

Willie Stargell

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

Cassandra Clare

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

John Cleese

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Robert Breault

Square meals often make round people.

E. Joseph Cossman

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Pete Rose

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

Studs Terkel

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?