Quote authors in 1920

Authors of 1920

Born or Deceased in 1920

Julius Boros

Julius Boros

Born :3 March 1920

Marion Motley

Marion Motley

Born :5 June 1920

Stan Musial

Stan Musial

Born :21 November 1920

Early Wynn

Early Wynn

Born :6 January 1920

P.D. James

P.D. James

Born :3 August 1920

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Born :16 August 1920

Alex Comfort

Alex Comfort

Born :10 February 1920

Quotes of 1920

Quotes taken from the authors in 1920

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski