Top 100 Willie Quotes
#1. There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.
Willie Lanier
#2. My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.
Willie Herenton
#3. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.
Willie Nelson
#4. If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
Mickey Mantle
#5. Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.
Jerry Coleman
#6. I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
Willie Nelson
#7. 'Give up ... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.
Willie Aames
#8. It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
Willie Aames
#9. I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy.
Todd Lowe
#10. I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.
Willie Aames
#11. People are fed up with Labour for taking them for granted for far too long, they are fed up of too much spin, and the people of Dunfermline and West Fife have spoken for the rest of the country with their views on the Labour government.
Willie Rennie
#12. My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
Willie Lanier
#13. Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.
Willie Stargell
#14. I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Willie Stargell
#15. We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.
Willie Walsh
#16. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
Lyle Lovett
#17. Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
Willie Nelson
#19. The colder the weather, the bigger the gun
Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one
In June it's .22's, February it's fifths
But all year round, it's 616.
Willie The Kid
#20. Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.
Willie D
#21. There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.
Willie Randolph
#22. I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consistent rate of return.
Willie Geist
#23. God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere.
Willie Nelson
#24. I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.
Willie Aames
#25. Willie appeared completely calm about the news of Mother. She always said she could make tea in a tornado.
Ruta Sepetys
#26. Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.
Willie Nelson
#27. People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
Willie Stargell
#28. Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
Paul Rudd
#29. People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
Willie Geist
#30. I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.
Willie Aames
#31. When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
Willie Stargell
#33. You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.
Willie Nelson
#34. The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.
Hugh Hewitt
#35. I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.
Willie Aames
#36. I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
Willie Mays
#37. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
Willie Mays
#38. I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
Otis Rush
#40. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
Arthur Miller
#41. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
Dan Rather
#44. They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
Willie Mays
#45. What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
Gabriel Byrne
#46. I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
Willie Nelson
#47. God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Willie Aames
#49. Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.
Willie Geist
#50. Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
Willie Stargell
#51. I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
Willie Nelson
#52. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
Willie Nelson
#53. I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.
Willie Geist
#54. I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
Willie Aames
#55. You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.
Willie Nelson
#56. Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there," Willie said with a grin. "An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.
Janette Oke
#57. I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.
Willie Carson
#58. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.
Willie Nelson
#59. I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.
Willie Aames
#61. All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
Willie Pep
#62. It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds
I am to wait
I said
George Saunders
#63. As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
Cheech Marin
#64. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
Willie Nelson
#65. My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.
Willie Geist
#66. When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
#67. The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.
Willie Keeler
#68. As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
Willie Morris
#69. Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
Willie Mays
#70. I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
Willie Nelson
#71. Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
Willie Stargell
#72. First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
Willie Pep
#73. You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank
Ray Palla
#74. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
Willie Nelson
#75. I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper
#76. Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
Merle Haggard
#77. It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
Willie Nelson
#78. If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.
Willie Herenton
#80. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
Willie Nelson
#81. If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.
Willie Geist
#82. I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
B.B. King
#83. I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.
Willie Geist
#84. When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.
Willie Nelson
#85. Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
Willie Sutton
#86. I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
Willie Mays
#87. Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.
Willie Geist
#88. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
Robbie Robertson
#89. I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
Gabe Paul
#90. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.
Sarah McLachlan
#91. Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
Willie Stargell
#92. I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
Willie Mays
#93. I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
Willie Nelson
#94. Zebra babies can flat-out run within an hour of being born, because if they can't, they're dead. We were like zebras, so poor we didn't know how poor we were, and tough and independent because there wasn't any other way to be.
Willie Parker
#95. At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
Willie Mays
#96. I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again
Willie Nelson
#97. Did Rob make it?" Sistine asked Willie May. "He did," said Willie May. "It looks alive. Is it like your bird that you let go?
Kate DiCamillo
#98. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman
#99. What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?
Willie Geist
#100. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'Donnell
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