Chris Matthews Quotes:
Ocupation: Commentator
Life: b. December 17, 1945
Birthday: December 17
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.
source: "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011. 
topic: Kings, Hero, Kids, King Arthur
