“After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, were in the eye at present and would have another two days coming out the other side.”
John Witt
“It was the schooner Hesperus, / That sailed the wintry sea; / And the skipper had taken his little daughter, / To bear him company.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”
John Barth
“[Hurdle] told me the tryout was over, and as long as he is the skipper, I'll be hitting cleanup, just keep doing what I was doing,”
Matt Holliday
“I knew when the skipper looked at me and said, 'Put your things on,' he wasn't kidding. So I went out to the bullpen.”
Roger Clemens
“[If that were to happen, the crew quite possibly would have lost both its skipper and its rig to the world's harshest seas. Why take on such a risk?] Because I was young, I was fit, but most importantly, I was a member of the team, ... And sending me up there was the best use of the team's resources. So I did it.”
Simon Walker
“Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says. ”
DeShaun Foster
