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1 " The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies. "
― Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
2 " He cried like a jockey who'd just lost the Kentucky Derby by a few nostril hairs. "
3 " I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie. "
4 " The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. "
5 " When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place. "
6 " I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. "
7 " I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life. "
