(93 quotes found)
“Big mouthfuls often choke.”
Italian Proverb
“Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.”
Tom Watson
“It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”
James Whitcomb Riley
“I couldn't breathe for a while. It was a little bit scary. I was making the universal signal for choking.”
Matt Carere
“That's because I was choking.”
“Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.”
Wallace Stevens
“I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.”
Arthur Ashe
