“I always leave one plate unexposed in case something happens on the way home.”
February 16, 1885 – September 21, 1968
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
U.S. Citizen: July 28, 1904 Brooklyn, New York
“I don’t look backwards or keep records – I look ahead.”
June 1, 1940 —
Birthplace: Oyster Bay, New York
“Why should I quit Star sailing? I wouldn’t have my friends.”
May 9, 1935 —
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington
“There are many who, in sailing, are reminded of symbolic conflicts with 'father,' or 'brother' and who, in an impasse between stimulated desire to defeat him and a guilty concern that they might, alternate between pressing on to victory and deliberate self-destruction.”
— From Winning: The Psychology of Competition
April 19, 1923 — November 12, 2018
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
“I was very much in love with a vessel that sails on her bottom, not on her beam ends.”
January 24, 1884 – March 3, 1962
Birthplace: Troy, New York
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