Raoul Duke: In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.
Derby born and bred, mate.
At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb
I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.
Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
Brian Clough: What are you doing? You weren't supposed to *accept* our resignations! Sam Longson: Shouldn't bloody well offer them, then, should you? Brian Clough: Look, you can't get rid of us. It would be a disaster for the club. For the whole of D...
You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.
It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well.
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.
Oh, hell. You're a fairy," I said. "Yeah," he said. "You know, they call it 'being gay' nowadays, but sure, whatever.
Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.
There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.
I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.
