Willie Quotes & Sayings

I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder. — Sandy Koufax

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you. — Willie Dixon

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend. — Lee Brice

Galder Weatherwax, Supreme Grand Conjuror of the Order of the Silver Star, Lord Imperial of the Sacred Staff, Eighth Level Ipsissimus and 304th Chancellor of Unseen University, wasn't simply an impressive sight even in his red nightshirt with the hand-embroidered mystic runes, even in his long cap with the bobble on, even with the Wee Willie Winkie candlestick in his hand. He even managed to very nearly pull it off in fluffy pompom slippers as — Terry Pratchett

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to. — Willie Nelson

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today. — Willie Stargell

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time. — Willie Nelson

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim. — Willie Geist

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy ... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober. — Willie Dixon

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em. — Willie Mays

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. — Herb Brooks

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate. — Willie Lanier

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say. — Willie Nelson

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. — Willie Mays

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful. — Alec Baldwin

God created us to thrive on encouragement from others — Willie Robertson

Maybe pick it up by mistake with the cleaning?" "It is there." "With the cleaning?" "In the closet." "No, it isn't. I looked." About to speak, Willie tightened her lips and scowled. Karl had walked in. "Good evening, Madam." He went to the sink for a glass of water. "Did you set those traps?" asked Chris. "No rats." "Did you set them?" "I set them, of course, but the attic is clean." "Tell me, how — William Peter Blatty

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. — Willie Morris

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart — Willie Nelson

I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. — Willie Nelson

The high stone fireplace, the heavy walnut tables, the fringed Oriental rug, the leather furniture. The air definitely came alive, but Willie felt out of place. Not because of any excessive luxury-the furnishings, while meticulously preserved, were still scarred and worn, but they seemed to suspend him in another time. Why, it was like walking into a movie set for Wuthering Heights. — Gloria Naylor

I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. — Willie Nelson

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line. — Willie Stargell

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do. — Otis Rush

Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. He was less free than before. He developed the apprehensive listening ears of a young mother; the ears listened on in his sleep; he never quite slept, not the way he had before. — Herman Wouk

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. — Willie Nelson

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working. — Willie Pep

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. — Willie Stargell

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. — Willie Nelson

He realized suddenly that every fragment of Fraser's being was focused on the scene outside. Of
course; he had not seen Willie since the boy was twelve. And to see the two together - his daughter and
the son he could never speak to or acknowledge. He would have touched Fraser, put a hand on his arm
in sympathy, but knowing the probable effect of his touch, forbore to do it. — Diana Gabaldon

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all. — Willie Mays

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. — Willie Nelson

When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California. — Willie Aames

The life I love is making music with my friends. — Willie Nelson

I was a landscaper for three years and loved it. — Willie Geist

The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk."
"Anyone ever told you you're sort of a creepy kid?" Odd Willie asks.
"All the damn time," Emmie tells him. "I don't bother keeping count anymore. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

But it wasn't a Primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the backroom of Casey's Saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes, and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood. — Robert Penn Warren

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models. — Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day. — Willie Aames

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. — Willie Nelson

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife. — Willie Aames

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. — Willie Davis

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet. — Willie Aames

One block at a time. — Willie T. Ong

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. — Willie Dixon

I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays. — George W. Bush

If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter's books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured. Nature probably gave you the wrong shape of forehead. Mrs. Porter herself would have put it down to some atavistic tendency or pre-natal influence. She put most things down to that. She blamed nearly all the defects of the modern world, from weak intellects to in-growing toe-nails, on long-dead ladies and gentlemen who, safe in the family vault, imagined that they had established their alibi. She subpoenaed grandfathers and even great-grandfathers to give evidence to show that the reason Twentieth-Century Willie squinted or had to spend his winters in Arizona was their own shocking health 'way back in the days beyond recall. — P.G. Wodehouse

Little Willie, full of glee,
Put radium in grandma's tea.
Now he thinks it quite a lark
To see her shining in the dark. — Harry Graham

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground. — Willie Nelson

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer. — Willie Mays

to speak to anyone on her way, and by no means to speak to any Free State soldier, for if she does, we will be killed here. They will kill us as easily as they killed Willie on the mountain, that's for sure. I would say to you, we will kill you if she speaks, but I am not sure if we would.' My father looked at him surprised. And it seemed so honest and polite a thing to say, I resolved to do as he asked, and speak to no one. 'And anyhow, we have no bullets, which is why we stayed in the heather, like hares, and didn't stir. I would we had stirred, lads,' said the brother of the dead man, 'and risen up, and thrun ourselves at them, because this is no way to stand in the world, with Willie dead, and us living.' And — Sebastian Barry

Redneck law: Must have a gun. Must shoot it regularly. — Willie Robertson

I fink I gots deaf on me willie. — Christopher Moore

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. — Willie Stargell

The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes — Willie Mays

This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here. — Willie Perdomo

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating. — Willie Aames

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. — Willie Nelson

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. — Willie Mays

I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consistent rate of return. — Willie Geist

Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference, — Janette Oke

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life. — Willie Mays

The bat is gone, but the smile remains. — Willie Stargell

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country. — Douglas Brinkley

'Give up ... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary. — Willie Aames

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. — Willie Stargell

So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework. — Willie D

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. — Doug Harvey

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions. — Willie Geist

It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference. — Willie Geist

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!. — Eugene Field

What goes around, comes around. — Willie Nelson

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. — Willie Geist

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. — Willie Geist

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. — Willie Soon

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. — Willie Mays

God continues to work miracles in my life. — Willie Aames

I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series. — Willie Mays

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues. — Willie Dixon

Chris Rock is a very funny man. — Willie Geist

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. — Willie Brown

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own. — Willie Robertson

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you. — Willie Nelson

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere. — Willie Nelson

Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself. — John H Richardson

Fortunately, we are not in control. — Willie Nelson

KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE MIND! In other words, break the will to resist. — Willie Lynch

There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. — Tallulah Bankhead

Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question. — Monte Irvin

Science and its practice are no longer free and willing today but instead are constantly terrorized by research funding gravy trains and group thinking. This is why science needs defending and it takes courage to cleanse science from those cancerous elements and to bring her forward in its rightful place again. I am humbled and honored by this recognition. — Willie Soon

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. — Willie Morris

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife. — Willie Aames

Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie. — Ruta Sepetys

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. — Willie Stargell

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. — Willie Nelson

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
Willie Nelson — Willie Nelson

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes? — Willie Geist

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. — Willie Aames

Tom was anxious about whether he could keep his job at the hospital or would have to go on relief, he exclaimed, "If I could not support my family, I'd as soon jump off the dock." That is, if the value of being a self-respecting wage-earner were threatened, Tom, like the salesman Willie Loman and countless other men in our society, would feel he no longer existed as a self, and might as well be dead. — Rollo May

A magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist! — Willie Soon