Quote authors in 1942

Authors of 1942

Born or Deceased in 1942

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Born :8 January 1942

Mmuhammad ali

Mmuhammad ali

Born :17 January 1942

Richie Allen

Richie Allen

Born :8 March 1942

Dick Butkus

Dick Butkus

Born :9 December 1942

Dennis Conner

Dennis Conner

Born :16 December 1942

Raymond Floyd

Raymond Floyd

Born :4 September 1942

Ray Floyd

Ray Floyd

Born :4 September 1942

Bob Hayes

Bob Hayes

Born :20 December 1942

Tony Perez

Tony Perez

Born :14 May 1942

Pete Rose

Pete Rose

Born :14 April 1942

Roger Staubach

Roger Staubach

Born :5 February 1942

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo

Born :23 March 1942

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

Born :23 October 1942

Samuel R.Delany

Samuel R.Delany

Born :1 April 1942

Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari

Born :17 December 1942

Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari

Born :17 December 1942

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Born :7 June 1942

Quotes of 1942

Quotes taken from the authors in 1942

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, 'If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.' So it was a great thrill to play there.

It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4 , 5 , 6 under par probably.

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

Samuel R.Delany

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Samuel R.Delany

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

Samuel R.Delany