| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26529 |
| QUOTATION: | In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Donald Hall (b. 1928), U.S. poet, essayist. “Basketball: The Purest Sport of Bodies,” Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport, North Point Press (1985). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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