Top 100 Willie Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.
Jase Robertson
#3. The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down ... The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.
Michael O'Leary
#4. I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.
Ted Kluszewski
#5. I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord.
Ruta Sepetys
#6. With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Ernie Harwell
#7. My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#8. I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.
Monte Irvin
#9. Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff ... Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
Robert Penn Warren
#10. If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
Charley Pride
#11. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Monte Irvin
#12. In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
Douglas Brinkley
#13. Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
Eugene Field
#14. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
Katherine Paterson
#15. Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
Brad Paisley
#16. I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.
James Richardson
#17. But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
Alan Vega
#18. Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
Noel Coward
#19. Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.
Henry Garza
#20. If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.
Todd Lowe
#21. I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.
Charlie Day
#22. Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.
Lee Brice
#23. What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country."
Willie "Drafted
Rich Allan
#24. My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.
Stevie Wonder
#25. I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.
Shane McAnally
#26. Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, "That would certainly make everything easier," even though I can't think of one person who'd qualify, except maybe Willie Nelson.
Chuck Klosterman
#27. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.
Jay Nordlinger
#28. I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
Ronnie Wood
#29. Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there
Sebastian Barry
#30. Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
Dan Rather
#31. I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
Jerry Coleman
#32. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE
James W. Loewen
#33. I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.
Gregg Allman
#34. One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.
Andrew McCutchen
#35. I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).
Barry Bonds
#36. Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
Jackie Earle Haley
#37. She's got a new found fondness for stun guns."
There was silence and then Eddie replied "Yeah, I heard that too. Willie saw her with it, said the floor was littered with her victims.
Kristen Ashley
#38. Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?'
'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know
him if I didn't.'
'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has
thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.
George MacDonald
#39. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#40. Before every game he played Willie Ofahengaue would pray. But it to us it was never clear whether he prayed for himself or for the safety of the opposition!
Peter FitzSimons
#41. Willie did not need a psychiatrist to explain this woman's glamour profile: Neiman-Marcus-camouflage for a serious absence of soul.
Linda McDonald
#42. Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself.
John H Richardson
#43. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
John Henrik Clarke
#44. Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.
Bruce Springsteen
#45. My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.
Chris Tomlin
#46. Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference,
Janette Oke
#47. My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'" She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy.
Pat Conroy
#48. I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
#50. Man, you're a regular Bonnie Parker."
"A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up."
Jesse found that hysterical. "Did Willie say that?"
"Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt?
Ruta Sepetys
#51. I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.
Monte Irvin
#52. Little Willie, full of glee,
Put radium in grandma's tea.
Now he thinks it quite a lark
To see her shining in the dark.
Harry Graham
#53. Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity.
Douglas Brinkley
#54. In April 1933, Willie's mother, Myrle, gave birth to him in a manger somewhere along the old highway between Waco & Dallas. There were angels in attendance that night. Some of them, no doubt, flying too close to the ground:
Kinky Friedman
#55. Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.
Marvin Gaye
#56. Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
Pete Rose
#57. I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete
Byron Edgington
#58. When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.
Paul Tsongas
#59. Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
Benjamin Booker
#60. Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#61. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
Pat Gillick
#62. He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.
Warren Spahn
#63. Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
Chuck Tanner
#64. Everyone playing in the major leagues today owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Fidrych. He brought baseball back to the people. He made it popular again. He helped save the game." - Willie Horton
Doug Wilson
#65. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#66. Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
Doug Harvey
#67. I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.
Eric Davis
#68. You'll have champagne. All girls like champagne.
All girls didn't like champagne. I preferred root beer. Willie preferred anything that smelled like gasoline and burned her throat. She could hold her liquor better than any man, and I wished she was there to help me navigate John Lockwell.
Ruta Sepetys
#69. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's
Robert Penn Warren
#70. You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
Herb Brooks
#71. I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
Lesley Ann Warren
#72. Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.
Steve Goodman
#73. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#75. I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.
Robert Penn Warren
#76. I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.
Emanuel Steward
#77. Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
Charlton Heston
#78. It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
Suzy Bogguss
#79. Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
Dan DeCarlo
#80. Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
Reba McEntire
#81. I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.
Eric Davis
#82. When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Laura Bell Bundy
#83. You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
Jeff Foxworthy
#84. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman
#85. 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
#86. In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
Judd Rose
#87. A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida.
Then it got weird.
Tim Dorsey
#88. Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ...
Tom Verlaine
#89. Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.
Shawn Amos
#90. Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie.
Ruta Sepetys
#91. Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.
Ruta Sepetys
#92. There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.
Tallulah Bankhead
#93. When Willie was a baby, he used to look into the soft almond eyes of his black-gold mother and in those reflecting mirrors of life and the world, he saw that the earth was a splendid lovely planet.
Thomas S. Klise
#94. I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.
Alec Baldwin
#95. I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.
Allan Ray
#96. If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman
#97. The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Carlisle Floyd
#98. I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.
Bryan Hayes
#99. I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
Warren Spahn
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