Peter O'Sullevan quotes

“The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.”
-- Peter O'Sullevan

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“I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.”

“Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.”

“Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.”

“I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.”

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”

“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”

Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

“Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.”

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”