Danny (Danny, the Champion of the World) Quotes

“It takes guts to do that, I thought. Terrific guts.”

“This was the moment of danger, the biggest thrill of all.”

“You will learn as you get older, just as I learned that autumn, that no father is perfect.”

“I think that all the love he had felt for my mother when she was alive he now lavished upon me. During my early years, I never had a moment’s unhappiness or illness and here I am on my fifth birthday.”

“Some have quirkier quirks and deeper secrets than others, but all of them, including one’s own parents, have two or three private habits hidden up their sleeves that would probably make you gasp if you knew about them.”

“What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.”