Quote authors in 1999

Authors of 1999

Born or Deceased in 1999

Joe Adcock

Joe Adcock

Tribute :3 May 1999

Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain

Tribute :12 October 1999

Joe DiMaggio

Joe DiMaggio

Tribute :8 March 1999

Catfish Hunter

Catfish Hunter

Tribute :9 September 1999

Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe

Tribute : 1999

Helen Wills Moody

Helen Wills Moody

Tribute :1 January 1999

Marion Motley

Marion Motley

Tribute :27 July 1999

Walter Payton

Walter Payton

Tribute :1 November 1999

Pee Wee Reese

Pee Wee Reese

Tribute :14 August 1999

Gene Sarazen

Gene Sarazen

Tribute :13 May 1999

Payne Stewart

Payne Stewart

Tribute :25 October 1999

Early Wynn

Early Wynn

Tribute :4 April 1999

Quotes of 1999

Quotes taken from the authors in 1999

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.

If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

Wilt Chamberlain

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

Wilt Chamberlain

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

Wilt Chamberlain

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Wilt Chamberlain

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

Helen Wills Moody