Whipping Quotes

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime. - Jim Knight

You've got to keep the kids focused. I've been quick to remind them of the feeling after the first four games. And this is a game between two district games (Atlantic last Friday, Menendez next week). And it's homecoming. And North Marion's always been a tough game for us. We've had some real battles with them and they've put some pretty good whippings on us. - Wilson Edwards

You're a rallying point and therefore a whipping boy at the same time, and that's part and parcel of the gig...[But] unless you engage with the political process, you aren't going to get political and economic justice. - Bob Geldof

You always want your team mentally right for an upcoming game. UNA helped us by whipping Delta. I'd be a little bit more worried had they just barely won. But that got our attention. They know they just can't show up and play. - Randy Tribble

Wow. Good heavens. I'm getting drenched just looking at these pictures. The water is whipping my body. - Allen Toussaint

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights; and I received several very severe whippings for telling people that my name was William, after orders were given to change it. Though young, I was old enough to place a high appreciation upon my name. - William Wells Brown

When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead. - Ralph Hodgson

We're just happy that we're not the whipping boy anymore and that we can concentrate on positive things. - Shaun O'Hara