Dennis Conner Quotes

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

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We were having trouble finding a guy to do the bow. There were a couple of mistakes up front one day, and Dennis leaned over the wheel and said, 'Tomorrow, you're going to try it.' That was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately, I got too good at it, and he wouldn't let me try anything else.

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If I hadn't lost it, there never would have been the national effort to get it back in Fremantle, and without that there never would have been the ticker-tape parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, lunch with the president at the White House and all the doors of opportunity that it opened

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With these new boats and our veteran crew of American sailors, I feel this is one of the best campaigns I've ever put together. The bare hull of USA-77 just left Newport, Rhode Island two weeks ago and here she is going sailing today, which is true testament to how hard our whole team has worked to make this day possible

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