Quote authors in 1944

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Authors of 1944

Born or Deceased in 1944

Rick Barry

Born :28 March 1944

Steve Carlton

Born :22 December 1944

Joe Frazier

Born :12 January 1944

Tug McGraw

Born :30 August 1944

Earl Monroe

Born :21 November 1944

Tom Seaver

Born : 1944

Emanuel Steward

Born :7 July 1944

Jack Henry Abbott

Born :21 January 1944

Jack Canfield

Born :19 August 1944

Jack L. Chalker

Born :17 December 1944

Paula Danziger

Born :18 August 1944

Quotes of 1944

Quotes taken from the authors in 1944

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Joe Frazier

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Joe Frazier

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Joe Frazier

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Joe Frazier

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.

Joe Frazier

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Steve Carlton

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Steve Carlton

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

Steve Carlton

I trained myself to perform on the field.

Steve Carlton

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

Steve Carlton

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

Earl Monroe

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Earl Monroe

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

Earl Monroe

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Earl Monroe

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

Earl Monroe

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Jack Henry Abbott

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Jack Henry Abbott

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Jack Henry Abbott

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott