This reminds me of my favorite unlucky criminal of all time — a guy in Spain who tried to steal the luggage of hurdler Larry Wade. At the time, Maurice Greene was the fastest man on earth, and he was there, and he chased after the criminal and caught him and got Larry’s luggage back. It always struck me that the criminal was sitting in a jail cell muttering, “Yeah, of course, my luck, MAURICE GREENE had to be there. If it had been anyone else, I get away. If even the second-fastest man in the world was there, I outrun the guy. But, no, it had to be Maurice Greene.”
If you like baseball read this article and the related one. Best line in the article listing the 32 fastest pitchers is this:
“Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.”
I had to hold off from including about a dozen more great lines.