Quote authors in 1998

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Authors of 1998

Born or Deceased in 1998

Florance Griffith Joyner

Tribute :21 September 1998

Archie Moore

Tribute :9 December 1998

Ray Nitschke

Tribute :8 March 1998

Dan Quisenberry

Tribute :30 September 1998

Leo Buscaglia

Tribute :11 June 1998

John Henrik Clarke

Tribute :16 July 1998

Quotes of 1998

Quotes taken from the authors in 1998

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Florance Griffith Joyner

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Florance Griffith Joyner

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Florance Griffith Joyner

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

Florance Griffith Joyner

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

Florance Griffith Joyner

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Dan Quisenberry

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Dan Quisenberry

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

Dan Quisenberry

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Archie Moore

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

Archie Moore

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Archie Moore

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

John Henrik Clarke

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

John Henrik Clarke

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

John Henrik Clarke

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

John Henrik Clarke

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

Ray Nitschke

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

Ray Nitschke