“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.”
| Eddie Albert, Actor (1908) |
| Kingsley Amis, Novelist (1922) |
| Philip James Bailey, Poet (1816) |
| Robert Barany, Scientist (1876) |
| Glen Campbell, Musician (1936) |
| Paul Davies, Writer (1946) |
| Larry Elder, Journalist (1952) |
| Janet Evanovich, Writer (1943) |
| Henry Fielding, Novelist (1707) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1854) |
| Ansel Adams, Photographer (1984) |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Politician (1908) |
| Stephen Lawrence, Celebrity (1993) |