William Beauford Fields (6 August 1929 – 20 November 1992) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. He was born in Georgia.
Fields won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.
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“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
—W.C. Fields (1879–1946)