Bobby Hackett quotes

Bobby Hackett quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.”
-- Bobby Hackett

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“Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.”
-- Bobby Hackett

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“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.”
“I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate â€” it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press
“Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”
“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”
“When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.”
“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”
“Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.”
“Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.”
“If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.”
“The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.”

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