Honus Wagner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
-- Honus Wagner

#Baseball #Summertime #Bats
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
-- Honus Wagner

#Live Life #Mean #Player
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars
-- Honus Wagner

#Play #Dollars #Fifteen
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
-- Honus Wagner

#Baseball
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
-- Honus Wagner

#Baseball #Years #Play
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
-- Honus Wagner

#Baseball #Dollars #Want
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
-- Honus Wagner

#Black #Privilege #Wagner

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
I would be comfortable to bat anywhere,
And I can say that Iâ€™ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Honus Wagner famous quotes

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