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He holds him with his skinny hand,

‘There was a ship,’ quoth he.

‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’

Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

He holds him with his glittering eye—

The Wedding-Guest stood still,

And listens like a three years’ child:

The Mariner hath his will.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:

He cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed Mariner.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

When you are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that.

—Duffy Daugherty, coach of Michigan State University’s football team between 1954 and 1972. As a player at Syracuse University in 1938, Daugherty broke his neck on the field, and played the rest of the season wearing a protective collar.