Elliott White Springs Quotes:
Life: July 31, 1896 - August 15, 1959
Birthday: July 31
Death: August 15
The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.
source: Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”
topic: Sports, Wine, Men, Recess
