ne of the most interesting and re- vealing features in Bowlers Journal over the years has been the Bowlers Journal Interview. Virtually every sig-
nificant bowling figure of the last 40 years has sat in the interview hot seat, some several times. And the hard-hitting Q&A format has produced more than its fair share of surprises. Each month leading up to the 100th Anniversary, Bowlers Journal will reprise the best of the BJ Interview. Here is a snippet from the late, great Earl An-
thony, who was interviewed more than a dozen times in Bowlers Journal. For more from the Earl Anthony interviews, click here.
You quit in the wake of a 150 game on television in Waukegan, Ill. Sounds like pride at work. Pride? That’s a drawback, true, and I think that’s one of my personality problems. I have too much pride. It helped in a way because it made me work very hard on my game. I wanted to be
the best. I don’t like to be embarrassed. I don’t know if it gets completely to the point of obses- sion, but it’s definitely close.
— November 1993
What would you say is your primary motivation? The biggest motivating factor for me, and the one that’s helped me to win titles, is the fact that I’m left-handed. The right-handers look at the lefties as if they’re not really good play- ers. It’s always been that way because there are fewer left-handers. So I’ve always felt that if I could ac- complish enough, eventually somebody would say, “Well, he could bowl. Anthony could play as well as the right- handers.” If I’d ever hear that, it would make me the hap- piest guy in the world. — November 1976
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