Eric Williams Quotes
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.
Lenchiner, Jeff. "Eric Williams Interview." InsideHoops.com, 21 Dec. 2005.
The Hon. Eric Eustace Williams TC CH is regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of Trinidad and Tobago, having led the then British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence on 31 August 1962, and republicanism on 1 August 1976, leading an unbroken string of general elections victories with his political party, the People's National Movement, until his death in 1981. He was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and also a noted Caribbean historian.