Theodore Gordon quotes

“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.”
-- Theodore Gordon

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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“The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.”
-- Theodore Gordon

Source : Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

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“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.”
-- Theodore Gordon

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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“Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.”
-- Theodore Gordon

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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“The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.”
-- Theodore Gordon

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“If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.”
-- Theodore Gordon

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”

“I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”

“Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.”

“Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.”

“I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.”

“My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.”

“Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.”

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”