Quotes About Walter Johnson

#1. Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Ty Cobb

#2. The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

Walter Johnson

#3. (Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

Walter Johnson

#4. Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Slade Combs

#5. You can't hit what you can't see.

Walter Johnson

#6. The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Arianna Huffington

#7. Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

Walter Johnson

#8. Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Edward Thorndike

#9. Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Walter Johnson

#10. Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Vanna Bonta

#11. Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Trudi Canavan

#12. The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

Walter Johnson

#13. Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

Walter Johnson

#14. Joshua is on probation," Seth explains.
"Oh my God. A miscreant angel.

Katie Klein

#15. I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

Walter Johnson

#16. I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'

Emo Philips

#17. Words of wisdom: Drop that zero and get with the hero.

Vanilla Ice

#18. A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

Peggy Post

#19. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Joe Klein

#20. Jeez, what did he think I was, a lust demon? I wanted Logan to show me how to use his sword, not show me how to use his man sword.

Cara Lynn Shultz