“Alright, you can have the Flying Scholarship, but you’ll have to grow two inches if you want to come back here.”

‘. . . but even worse is the crime of a deliberate attempt to step outside one’s capability box in the hope that Lady Luck will somehow come to your aid, and make you look like the hero that lives in your imagination.’

‘Many of us function quite satisfactorily with no personal picture that we’re aware of, and many will have binned their write-ups instantly. I salute them. Their motto is ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it,’ and my 200,000 mile Golf has prospered similarly.’

“If I was going to land in the lion’s enclosure I would want four afterburning Olympus engines to get me out of there.”