I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play che…

The race was over. I was last, by ten yards. Without the slightest hesitation I protested and challenged the runners to another race, same distance, back. They…

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.