Quote authors in 1949

Authors of 1949

Born or Deceased in 1949

Lyle Alzado

Lyle Alzado

Born :3 April 1949

Dusty Baker

Dusty Baker

Born :15 June 1949

Vida Blue

Vida Blue

Born :28 July 1949

Bill Buckner

Bill Buckner

Born :14 December 1949

Sam Ewing

Sam Ewing

Born :9 April 1949

George Foreman

George Foreman

Born :10 January 1949

Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

Born :30 October 1949

Bruce Jenner

Bruce Jenner

Born :28 October 1949

Tom Kite

Tom Kite

Born :9 December 1949

Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt

Born : 1949

Joe Theismann

Joe Theismann

Born :9 September 1949

Tom Watson

Tom Watson

Born :4 September 1949

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

Born :5 October 1949

Hervey Allen

Hervey Allen

Tribute :28 December 1949

Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg

Born :18 June 1949

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Born :25 August 1949

Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner

Born :15 December 1949

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Born :26 January 1949

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow

Born : 1949

Diane Mott Davidson

Diane Mott Davidson

Born :22 March 1949

Boualem Sansal

Boualem Sansal

Born :15 October 1949

Quotes of 1949

Quotes taken from the authors in 1949

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

Baseball's what I do.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.