Ron Fairly Quotes

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

You must shift your sail with the wind.

In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

For me, the wind is the worst weather you can have to play football.

South Floridians, we can relate to storms where you just brace and hold your breath and even when you're holding your breath you know the worst is coming.

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

The winds are out of breath.