#k

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#brain surgery #did #differently #doing #either

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#big #i #new #new york #performing

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#almost #cleanse #day #deal #dream

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#comfortable #get #great #happy-go-lucky #i

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#been #best #compliment #day #disc

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#develop #journey #just #life #part

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#faulkner #got #i #into #never

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#ever #fired #had #hundreds #i

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#find #fixed #got #had #i

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#created #i #illusion #literacy #reading