"He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it."The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy."
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"
"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."