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 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

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

Robert McCloskey

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

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Warren Spahn

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

Warren Spahn