Quote authors in 1947

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Authors of 1947

Born or Deceased in 1947

Stanley baldwin

Tribute :14 December 1947

Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Born :16 April 1947

Tom Dempsey

Born :12 January 1947

Carlton Fisk

Born :26 December 1947

Dick Fosbury

Born :6 March 1947

Pete Maravich

Born :22 June 1947

Johnny Miller

Born :29 April 1947

Bill Rodgers

Born :23 December 1947

Nolan Ryan

Born :31 January 1947

Jim Ryun

Born :29 April 1947

Frank Shorter

Born :31 October 1947

O J Simpson

Born :9 July 1947

Paul Auster

Born :3 February 1947

Henry Bromell

Born :19 September 1947

Willa Cather

Tribute :24 April 1947

Linda Chavez

Born :17 June 1947

Jude Deveraux

Born :20 September 1947

Quotes of 1947

Quotes taken from the authors in 1947

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Carlton Fisk

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

Carlton Fisk

I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

Carlton Fisk

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

Carlton Fisk

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

Carlton Fisk

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

Paul Auster

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Paul Auster

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?

Paul Auster

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

Paul Auster

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat

Frank Shorter

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

Frank Shorter

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Frank Shorter

I was actually going to law school in 1972

Frank Shorter

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Frank Shorter

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Dick Fosbury

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

Dick Fosbury

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Dick Fosbury

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Nolan Ryan

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.

Nolan Ryan