Rafael Nadal (1986) Spanish tennis player
After losing to James Blake at the US Open http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/sports/tennis/04men.html?pagewanted=all
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Hovind theory
Rafael Nadal (1986) Spanish tennis player
After losing to James Blake at the US Open http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/sports/tennis/04men.html?pagewanted=all
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession
Song lyrics, Wavelength (1978)
“You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it.”
Dutch Schultz (1902–1935) American mobster
From police transcripts of incoherent deathbed confession
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
"Chapter X," Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928), p. 135; reprinted as "Babe Ruth's Own Story — Chapter X: Great Individual Stars Worth Little Without Team Play; Signs and How They Operate, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c0sbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4554%2C1154246 The Pittsburgh Press (January 18, 1929), p. 45 <br class="br">Context: Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
1872(?), page 99 <br class="br">Echoing the 1816 hymn Come Ye Disconsolate http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/y/d/cydiscon.htm by Thomas Moore: "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." <br class="br">John of the Mountains, 1938
Marshall Faulk (1973) All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, Pro Football Hall of Fame memb…
USA Today 2005-08-02.
“You have more balls than a Christmas tree.”
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels