I found this passage this morning and I don't believe it has been said by anyone any better.


"You are young," Bergere observed gravely, "and everything is not used up, and you think you will go on for ever with all of your passions. But it is not so. They will fall by the way, one after another. You will do them too often. You will abuse yourself. And suddenly one day you will be like us, like Mr. Wilson and me. Not old, but not young any more. And the one passion that will remain will be the sport. For the game is always young, always on good, strong legs, always very alive until you kill it. And that will be the passion that you will never lose, the fever that will never burn out."


Any idea who wrote it?

Don't know but it fits me to a "T" Thanks for sharing.

Aw yes remember him well, but can't recall his name, he was some old wore out team roper that got to old to rope and I bought his horse!

Ray

Does that mean that your roping horse is for sale?

465H&H

Sounds like Papa to me, but it's just a guess.

I would agree with wannago - Hemingway would be my guess.

I know who it isn't: Boddington

No, it's from "White Hunter Black Heart" by Peter Viertel. It's a pretty good read as he sprinkles it with a few passages like this that let you know he understands both sides of the question.