Honus Quotes

#1. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell

#2. I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.

Waite Hoyt

#3. The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

John McGraw

#4. Honus was a wonderful fellow, so good-natured and friendly to everyone. Gee, we loved that guy. And the fans were crazy about him. Yeah, everybody loved that old Dutchman! If anyone told a good joke or a funny story, Honus would slap his knee and let out a loud roar and say, "What about that!" So

Lawrence S. Ritter

#5. When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

John McGraw

#7. Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith! ...

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I had a chronic beer-face condition; no matter what I was drinking, I ended up looking like I'd just eaten a live tarantula. It was very sophisticated.

Anna Jarzab

#9. Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

David Cook

#10. Kindness is everything ... When you receive it and express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. It's life, demystified. A place out of self. Not a waltz, the the whirls within a waltz.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#11. When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

Tori Kelly

#12. I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

Honus Wagner

#13. There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Honus Wagner

#14. I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

Honus Wagner

#15. The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn't have been this way. We didn't impose it on the Universe. That's the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.

Carl Sagan

#16. I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Honus Wagner

#17. In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

Honus Wagner

#18. I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

Honus Wagner

#19. It's just ... I'd like you to find some nice guy with no weird fuckin' baggage."
I had to laugh. My irritation vanished, and I reached over to pat his hand. "If you ever meet one," I said, "let me know.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

Kate Klimo

#21. London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Moore

#22. It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Margaret Mead

#23. wisdom, when it comes to sin, is that human wisdom wants to cover it up. Adam

Edwin Louis Cole

#24. Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.

Dean Koontz

#25. We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does ... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

George Orwell

#26. We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.

Honus Wagner

#28. A hard man is nice to find

Tom Barry

#29. It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn't know their purpose, they get lost.

Emmanuel Jal