Quotes About Shoeless Joe

#1. I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Babe Ruth

#2. Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

W.P. Kinsella

#3. If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

D. B. Sweeney

#4. She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix.

William Shakespeare

#5. People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Saint Augustine

#6. It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Murray Kempton

#7. When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#8. We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

Michael Horton

#9. As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over

Daisy Hernandez

#10. God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#11. I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#12. There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

Lav Diaz

#13. Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#14. I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.

W.P. Kinsella

#15. Thirty spokes share one hub in non-being lies the use of the cart knead clay to make vessels in non-being lies the use of the vessel cut out doors and windows to make a house
therefore form being comes what is usable and from non-being comes what is essential.

Lao-Tzu

#16. Be the woman a man needs. Don't be the woman that needs a man.

Kaiylah Muhammad