Quote authors in 1988

Authors of 1988

Born or Deceased in 1988

Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant

Born :29 September 1988

Ashton Eaton

Ashton Eaton

Born :21 January 1988

Carl Hubbell

Carl Hubbell

Tribute : 1988

Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Lin

Born :23 August 1988

Pete Maravich

Pete Maravich

Tribute :5 January 1988

Carly Patterson

Carly Patterson

Born :4 February 1988

Derrick Rose

Derrick Rose

Born :4 October 1988

Russell Westbrook

Russell Westbrook

Born :12 November 1988

Quotes of 1988

Quotes taken from the authors in 1988

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

With everything I do, I just try to be myself.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.