“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”
when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11, 11]
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Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter I, What Is Mysticism?, p. 27
Daily Herald, 25 May 1945
Speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945.
1940s
“I wanna play football for the coach — Liverpool’s coach!”
Rolling Stone magazine (2009)
“What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.”
Source: Abandon
“There is nothing in the contract that says a football coach has to be sane or a good loser.”
Jack on the the science of coaching.
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 40
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo. Não sei onde ela me levará, porque não sei nada.
“I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.”
"Sitting on the Bench" (1961)
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)
Context: I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.