Phil Kearns quotes

“You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.”
-- Phil Kearns

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“I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought...this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started”
-- Phil Kearns

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“Referees are only human, I think.”
-- Phil Kearns

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“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”

Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.

“Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.”

“You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!”

“I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.”

“We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.448, Ballantine Books

“Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.”

“It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.”