“I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.”
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990) American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist
As quoted in Guitar World, September 1988
“The only time I've ever been moderately successful is in combat was in the bottom of my class at West Point because of a goat mind. And a goat is the bottom of the bottom.”
Source: "Gen. Robert L. Scott" in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/03/01/gen-robert-l-scott/b5a0d04e-7d3b-4189-9490-92489a10a78d/ (1 March 2006)
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