Felix Francis > Quotes

“His favorite saying was If you live without making a difference, what difference does it make that you have lived.”
― Felix Francis, Crisis

“Would it actually be best if we took some time away from each other? Best for whom? For him? Or me? Certainly not for the boys. I had seen too many friends break up with early-teenage children and it all too often ended in disaster. Happy, confident youngsters became insular and withdrawn and neither parent ever regained the trust of their children that they had enjoyed previously.”
― Felix Francis, Pulse

“The toe end of the golf club caught him just behind his right ear and Grant had put all his considerable strength into that one shot. The cracking noise of the impact was impressive. Indeed, I was surprised that the metal hadn’t gone right through the skull and embedded itself deep into Forrester’s brain. Now who thought golf was a silly sport? Not me.”
― Felix Francis, Pulse

“Sid refuse? But”
― Felix Francis, Damage

“Mamma would have preferred him to be buried,’ Marina said to me as we arrived. ‘But there’s so little room in the Netherlands that you have to lease a cemetery plot, and then only for twenty years. After that, the council dig up your remains and reuse the space.”
― Felix Francis, Hands Down

“I watched the rest of”
― Felix Francis, Pulse

“Right from the earliest recorded races at Smithfield, London, in the twelfth century, wagers have been placed on which horse was the fastest. Racing as we know it today wouldn’t exist without gambling, but the biggest gambles in racing are not placed with a bookmaker or in the betting shops; they occur in the sale rings, where vast sums are staked on untested, unridden, and as-yet-unnamed yearling colts, in the hope they will turn out to be world beaters and future sires of champions. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t.”
― Felix Francis, No Reserve

“Perhaps that is why we humans are so keen to have children—we instinctively know it is the best way of being looked after when we get old. But that is assuming we actually do get old and our children aren’t run over in the meantime by a long black Mercedes with dark-tinted rear windows.”
― Felix Francis, Pulse

“She was nervous afterward. Anxious and upset. She had difficulty sleeping. She wouldn’t tell me why exactly, but I think it was because Bella wanted so much to have children of her own. To love and cherish them. She couldn’t bear the fact that Zoe had kids but didn’t seem to care, or even to look after them properly. It was like a double torment for her.”
― Felix Francis, Crisis

“And ASW was never one to stand idly by and say nothing when he believed that his intervention would help. His favorite saying was If you live without making a difference, what difference does it make that you have lived.”
― Felix Francis, Pulse

“The American colt Justify was sold at the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale for US$500,000. He raced just six times,”
― Felix Francis, No Reserve

“It would probably take us at FACSA at least twenty-four”
― Felix Francis, Triple Crown

“the”
― Felix Francis, Front Runner

“from Tony’s earlier package. However, this time there was a detailed map of the barns at Churchill Downs with Hayden Ryder’s outlined in red, together with the raid timetable and a list of actions specific to Steffi Dean. I noted that she was to secure the northeastern corner of the barn on arrival. The briefing papers also stated that the track opened for training at dawn, which was at six forty-five, so the raid would take place at six-thirty on Saturday morning. They also gave details of the raid personnel and their roles, as well as the transportation arrangements. All eight FACSA special agents would be involved, together with Norman Gibson, the section chief, who was to be in overall control. My name was not included on the raid personnel list. Local Kentucky law enforcement would be present”
― Felix Francis, Triple Crown