Quotes from authors born on Jan 17th
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
David Deutsch 
James H. Douglas 
Barbara Tuchman 
John Gresham Machen 
Bobby Bowden 
Danny Boyle 
John Galsworthy 
G. H. Hardy