Quote authors in 2002

Authors of 2002

Born or Deceased in 2002

Bob Hayes

Bob Hayes

Tribute :18 September 2002

Gene Mauch

Gene Mauch

Tribute :8 August 2002

Carl Olson

Carl Olson

Tribute :16 January 2002

Enos Slaughter

Enos Slaughter

Tribute :12 August 2002

Sam Snead

Sam Snead

Tribute :23 May 2002

Lou Thesz

Lou Thesz

Tribute :28 April 2002

Johnny Unitas

Johnny Unitas

Tribute :11 September 2002

Ted Williams

Ted Williams

Tribute :5 July 2002

Jack Henry Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott

Tribute :10 February 2002

Edwin Louis Cole

Edwin Louis Cole

Tribute : 2002

Quotes of 2002

Quotes taken from the authors in 2002

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Jack Henry Abbott

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Jack Henry Abbott

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Jack Henry Abbott