Quotes About Honus Wagner

#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. 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

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

John McGraw

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Honus Wagner

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

Honus Wagner

#10. I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

Sting

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

Honus Wagner

#12. As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Erica Jong

#13. The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

Charles Dickens

#14. Manage the cause, not the result.

W. Edwards Deming

#15. There's always pain behind the fame. Fame which I never asked for. Being in the spotlight has its fair share of disadvantages. I leaned back and fixed my eyes on the stereo and this time his hands were shivering. I wondered what would happen if Tinie Tempah boarded his taxi. He would die!

S.A. David

#16. Your pain made you strong. It made you
passionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Cora Carmack

#17. I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Howard Fast

#18. I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.

Beryl Bainbridge

#19. Mars-sized object slammed into Earth, blowing out enough material to create the Moon from the debris.

Bill Bryson

#20. Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

William Osler

#21. I've never met a person who exaggerated God's love. Never. It's impossible.

Judah Smith

#22. Admit it, love, you like it when I'm a little bad....

Kresley Cole

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

Honus Wagner

#24. Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.

Kevin Systrom

#25. The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease.

Euripides

#26. I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

Craig T. Nelson

#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