Willie's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#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. '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

#7. It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Willie Aames

#8. 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

#9. We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.

Willie Walsh

#10. 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

#11. There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.

Willie Randolph

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.

Willie Aames

#15. 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

#16. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Dan Rather

#17. 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

#18. Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Willie Stargell

#19. I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

Willie Geist

#20. 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

#21. I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

Willie Aames

#22. You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

Willie Nelson

#23. The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.

Willie Keeler

#24. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Willie Nelson

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

Robbie Robertson

#30. What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?

Willie Geist

#31. I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

Willie Nelson

#32. I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.

Dr. Willie Parker

#33. 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

#34. The glint of devilment in his bright blue eyes, so blue that the FBI once described them in bulletins as azure. It's the rare bank robber who moves the FBI to such lyricism.

J.R. Moehringer

#35. That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Willie Stargell

#36. I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Willie Aames

#37. It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Willie Stargell

#38. Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that.

Ayana Mathis

#39. Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.

Willie Nelson

#40. The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes

Willie Mays

#41. You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

Willie Pastrano

#42. 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

#43. I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Willie Geist

#44. There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.

Willie Soon

#45. A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Willie Nelson

#46. I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.

Willie Nelson

#47. They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children's toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion.

Sage Steadman

#48. If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

Willie Nelson

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

#52. I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Willie Geist

#53. Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

Willie McCovey

#54. I'm getting chest pains ... You give me chest pains Uncle Willie.
It's my fault you get excited.
Yes, it's your fault! I only get chest pains on Wednesdays.
So come on Tuesdays.

Neil Simon

#55. Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

Willie Brown

#56. Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

Willie Aames

#57. What has changed is that nothing has changed ... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Willie Nelson

#58. Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once you get used to it, it's not as hot. Most guys say it gets itchy, but once you grow it out into a big man beard, the itching is gone.

Willie Robertson

#59. The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk."
"Anyone ever told you you're sort of a creepy kid?" Odd Willie asks.
"All the damn time," Emmie tells him. "I don't bother keeping count anymore.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#60. When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.

Willie Nelson

#61. No one can take the place of a brave and courageous leader. Dare to be brave, dare to be courageous

S K Willie

#62. 'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Emmett Kelly

#63. It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

Willie Geist

#64. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

#65. I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

Willie Nelson

#66. If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.

Willie Aames

#67. People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

Willie Dixon

#68. My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Willie Geist

#69. The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

Willie Dixon

#70. My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.

Willie Nelson

#71. The God part is in your agency. The trust- the divine trust- is that you have an opportunity to participate in the population of the planet. And you have an opportunity not to participate.

Dr. Willie Parker

#72. I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

Willie Aames

#73. He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

Sparky Anderson

#74. If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you.
Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

#75. When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

Willie Aames

#76. Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.

Willie Nelson

#77. Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Willie Nelson

#78. There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.

Willie Nelson

#79. It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

Willie Aames

#80. Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Willie Robertson

#81. Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Eric Davis

#82. My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.

Willie Robertson

#83. (Why do you rob banks, Willie?) Because that's where the money is.

Willie Sutton

#84. That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Willie Mays

#85. Then God's a bigger poofter than Sweet Willie. "You might be right" said Justine. "He certainly isn't too fond of women, anyway. Second-class, that's us, way back in the Upper Circle. Front Stalls and the Mezzanine, strictly male.

Colleen McCullough

#86. TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.

Willie Garson

#87. The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

Willie Geist

#88. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

#89. Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.

Willie Robertson

#90. Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Willie Nelson

#91. As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Willie Nelson

#92. I cut a rap song once. It was a few years ago for my old show 'Buck Commander,' and it was a song called 'You're Short.' It was about my camera guy. We shot the video in Las Vegas, 'Ocean's Eleven' style!

Willie Robertson

#93. Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

Willie Nelson

#94. Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Willie Stargell

#95. I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.

Willie D

#96. It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

Suzy Bogguss

#97. A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

Willie Nelson

#98. There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Willie Nelson

#99. There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.

Willie Geist

#100. Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn.

Willie Geist