It was not a secret he could keep forever.
But I wish that he could pitch forever.
"He's just so good that you think he could play forever," Neal said.
He had fantasised about having a blond "younger brother", who he could keep forever by "consuming him".
If only he could live forever, or at least for another 20 years," said a 52-year-old shopkeeper when asked who might follow Nazarbayev.
Asked if he could retire, forever, after one more night in the ring, Holyfield sat in unusual silence, kicked the question around, and said maybe.
At times he would still let rip into pure comedy, as in his show-stopping turn as the genie in Aladdin, but it isn't surprising that he couldn't forever sustain the energy needed for such manic performances.
I think our breakup (by then we were living together and had spoken of marriage and children) hit him like a biblical casting out, an exile through which he could wander forever but never recover.
With 181 career victories, Wells joked that he would retire once he reached 193 so he could be forever tied with David Cone, his good friend and a former Yankee.
Since he could spend forever working out the angle of a chair back, his projects on this side of the Atlantic were few, though exceedingly choice: office furniture for Herman Miller, prize-winning concert-hall chairs for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
