Quote authors in 1962

Authors of 1962

Born or Deceased in 1962

Michael Andretti

Michael Andretti

Born :5 October 1962

Tracy Austin

Tracy Austin

Born :12 December 1962

Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens

Born :4 August 1962

Eric Davis

Eric Davis

Born :29 May 1962

Doug Flutie

Doug Flutie

Born :23 October 1962

Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield

Born :19 October 1962

Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson

Born :30 November 1962

Dean Karnazes

Dean Karnazes

Born :23 August 1962

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Born :3 March 1962

Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe

Born : 1962

Jamie Moyer

Jamie Moyer

Born :18 November 1962

William Perry

William Perry

Born :6 December 1962

Jerry Rice

Jerry Rice

Born :13 October 1962

Herschel Walker

Herschel Walker

Born :3 March 1962

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Tribute :5 August 1962

Martha Beck

Martha Beck

Born :29 November 1962

Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block

Born :3 December 1962

David Brock

David Brock

Born :2 November 1962

Tammy Bruce

Tammy Bruce

Born :19 August 1962

Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben

Born :4 January 1962

Justin Cronin

Justin Cronin

Born : 1962

Richard Paul Evans

Richard Paul Evans

Born :11 October 1962

Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall

Born : 1962

Quotes of 1962

Quotes taken from the authors in 1962

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.