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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

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

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

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

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley baldwin

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies

Stanley baldwin

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

Stanley baldwin

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Stanley baldwin

War would end if the dead could return.

Stanley baldwin

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

Linda Chavez

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Linda Chavez