Shoeless Quotes

#1. In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

Jesse Ventura

#2. I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

Norman Reedus

#3. 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

#4. The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

Jedediah Berry

#5. 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

#6. There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. He died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys?

Frank McCourt

#7. Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Cecelia Ahern

#8. 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

#9. The Romans, spring and early

Harry Turtledove

#10. There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

Adrian Tomine

#11. Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

Estelle Morris

#13. Remember what I've told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#15. I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.

Julie Anne Peters

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

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#17. I need you so fucking bad.

Matthew Quick

#18. Right then, in that moment, Dex The Dick grinned. Grinned. And sweet mother of God, it was devastating. So completely catastrophic I just stood there and absorbed the nuclear bomb going off in front of me, defenseless.

Mariana Zapata

#19. I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Dikembe Mutombo

#20. 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

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

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#22. 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