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

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do.

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

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.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Forget goals. Value the process.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

Bruce Froemming

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Margaret Atwood

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Margaret Atwood

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Margaret Atwood

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Margaret Atwood

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

Margaret Atwood

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.