#houston

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#big #couple #dad #days #fan

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#butts #con #either #fans #give

He skidded to a dead halt and stared hard at Austin. The boy’s chin carried so many nicks from his first shave that it was a wonder he hadn’t bled to death. He was a year older than Houston had been when he’d last stood on a battlefield. Sweet Lord, Houston had never had the opportunity to shave his whole face; he’d never flirted with girls, wooed women, or danced through the night. He’d never loved. Not until Amelia. And he’d given her up because he’d thought it was best for her. Because he had nothing to offer her but a one-roomed log cabin, a few horses, a dream so small that it wouldn’t cover the palm of her hand. And his heart. His wounded heart. ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#lorraine-heath #texas-destiny #death

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ↗

— Robert Smith

#i #listening #looking #my time #rather

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field. ↗

— Franco Harris

#houston #kind #tough

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#doubt #houston #i #me #next

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#get together #guys #houston #i #miss

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#because #country #ever #freedom #fun

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem! ↗

— Wally Schirra

#because #come #had #head #helmets