Quote authors in 2003

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Authors of 2003

Born or Deceased in 2003

Larry Doby

Tribute :8 June 2003

Althea Gibson

Tribute :28 September 2003

Craig Kelly

Tribute :20 January 2003

Bill Shoemaker

Tribute :12 October 2003

Warren Spahn

Tribute :24 November 2003

Robert McCloskey

Tribute :30 June 2003

Quotes of 2003

Quotes taken from the authors in 2003

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Larry Doby

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

Larry Doby

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Althea Gibson

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Althea Gibson

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

Craig Kelly

For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

Craig Kelly

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Craig Kelly

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.

Craig Kelly

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Shoemaker

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Shoemaker

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Robert McCloskey

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

Robert McCloskey

It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.

Robert McCloskey

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Robert McCloskey