Quote authors in 1939

Authors of 1939

Born or Deceased in 1939

George Archer

George Archer

Born :1 October 1939

Ralph Boston

Ralph Boston

Born :9 May 1939

Jim Bouton

Jim Bouton

Born :8 March 1939

Lou Brock

Lou Brock

Born :18 June 1939

Bruce Froemming

Bruce Froemming

Born :28 September 1939

Bob Lilly

Bob Lilly

Born :26 July 1939

Phil Niekro

Phil Niekro

Born :1 April 1939

Bill Toomey

Bill Toomey

Born :10 January 1939

Lee Trevino

Lee Trevino

Born :1 December 1939

Al Unser

Al Unser

Born :29 May 1939

Carl Yastrzemski

Carl Yastrzemski

Born :22 August 1939

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Born :18 November 1939

Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara

Born :25 March 1939

Quotes of 1939

Quotes taken from the authors in 1939

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Toni Cade Bambara

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Toni Cade Bambara

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

Too many athletes do not admit their weaknesses.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.