Lamonte is very talented. He's long and athletic. If he keeps his head screwed on straight, he'll be...
WILLIE WORSLEY I'm a father, a grandfather, a teacher and a friend before I'm a coach. There's nothing more importa...
WILLIE WORSLEY The meets are designed for swimmers at all different levels.
PATTI WORSLEY I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those ...
WILLIE MAYS At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmin...
WILLIE MAYS Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
WILLIE NELSON As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me...
WILLIE GEIST You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' S...
WILLIE GEIST I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, p...
WILLIE GEIST Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ...
WILLIE GEIST When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.
WILLIE GEIST Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he want...
WILLIE SHOEMAKER Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, h...
WILLIE MAYS You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
WILLIE NELSON When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER When they start the game, they don't yell, Work ball. They say, Play ball.
WILLIE STARGELL Hit em where they ain't.
WILLIE KEELER The road to success runs uphill.
WILLIE DAVIS Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, ...
WILLIE SHOEMAKER The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the s...
WILLIE TYLER To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of me...
WILLIE BROWN In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared ...
WILLIE MAYS There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.
WILLIE SUTTON The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to...
WILLIE MAYS I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my ...
WILLIE AAMES Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and ...
WILLIE AAMES Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or someb...
WILLIE NELSON In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared ...
WILLIE MAYS I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.
WILLIE AAMES When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two...
WILLIE MAYS All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty...
WILLIE NELSON I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans wo...
WILLIE NELSON Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
WILLIE NELSON Thanks to all the fans from Detroit and Philly who are recognizing what type of player I am, and I h...
WILLIE GREEN I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologis...
WILLIE AAMES My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old...
WILLIE NELSON Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I t...
WILLIE GEIST I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shameful...
WILLIE GEIST Chris Rock is a very funny man.
WILLIE GEIST There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone...
WILLIE STARGELL It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
WILLIE AAMES I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state ...
WILLIE AAMES When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
WILLIE NELSON I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
WILLIE MAYS If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other t...
WILLIE MAYS I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
WILLIE MAYS I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I u...
WILLIE MAYS I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems...
WILLIE MAYS Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are ...
WILLIE NELSON Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you us...
WILLIE AAMES We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands b...
WILLIE STARGELL I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, sa...
WILLIE AAMES Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
WILLIE NELSON When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of los...
WILLIE AAMES We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
WILLIE STARGELL Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzl...
WILLIE GEIST Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
WILLIE STARGELL I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadiu...
WILLIE STARGELL I'm not a coffee drinker, so my drink is kind of like a girlie skim chai latte. I'm not prou...
WILLIE GEIST Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For a...
WILLIE MAYS Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three differ...
WILLIE ROBERTSON There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER You can hear it. You chuckle when you see them get on a guy like that. But it means a guy must be do...
WILLIE MITCHELL I got the impression that both parties are desperately interested in settling this strike,
WILLIE BROWN In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
WILLIE BROWN I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.
WILLIE GEIST Give the pitcher credit, he threw the ball well. We didn't muster much of an offense.
WILLIE RANDOLPH I'm going to have 10 pork roasts rotating on a rotisserie grill, and we're going to serve it with dr...
WILLIE WILSON Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned a...
WILLIE GEIST Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
WILLIE STARGELL I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's t...
WILLIE GEIST That reminded me of the Kenny Lofton of yesteryear. Those were huge plays. We could have gotten some...
WILLIE RANDOLPH There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees-Red Sox to me.
WILLIE RANDOLPH I think he'll probably throw off the mound soon. Obviously, he's going to have to get off the mound ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH Sometimes you come in with a guy who is unorthodox in a delivery and he'll get you an out. Bring som...
WILLIE RANDOLPH It's a different type of heat. Here you have humidity and you sweat. Other there it's like a blow dr...
WILLIE SUTTON He had a nice game. I noticed he had more pep in his step.
WILLIE RANDOLPH Not yet. He's like glue.
WILLIE WILLIAMS When Ray did I Can't Stop Loving You , that was probably the time when country music was heard by mo...
WILLIE NELSON If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
WILLIE SHOEMAKER It's no secret that Maori issues are important to me. I can't hide that - I was the leader of a Maor...
WILLIE JACKSON It's an ongoing process. Librarians look at what's popular and where there are gaps in the collectio...
WILLIE NELMS Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste."
WILLIE BROWN Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
WILLIE STARGELL Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
WILLIE MAYS If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No....
WILLIE MAYS Hopefully, they can say, "There goes the best baseball player in the world." I honestly believe I di...
WILLIE MAYS You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in k...
WILLIE STARGELL The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change cont...
WILLIE NELSON Hope remains when pride is gone,
And it keeps you moving on. . . .
WILLIE NELSON I really enjoyed playing for a cause so close to the hearts of Londoners. The atmosphere was electri...
WILLIE GARSON Okay, so you're not Heidi Klum, but you're the 'modeliest' of the real people.
WILLIE GARSON You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
WILLIE STARGELL It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
WILLIE STARGELL The game is going to be a shoot out. Us being in the finals shows that all the hard work the girls h...
WILLIE JACKSON On several incidents already, she's helped me a lot to be able to interpret what people are trying t...
WILLIE JACKSON I agree with the other City Council people that I was disappointed in what the mayor said because I ...
WILLIE JACKSON I think it comes and goes, ... It all depends on the situation at the particular time.
WILLIE JACKSON I was told New Orleans... wanted to go another direction. Through it, I learned a valuable lesson......
WILLIE JACKSON I knew that I could play, but I knew the business of the game. They are going to look to the younger...
WILLIE JACKSON I'm not slowing down. Remember, I never wanted to leave, and it was just a matter of getting picked ...
WILLIE JACKSON And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule...
WILLIE JACKSON It was harder for him. They were real, real close. He dealt with it, but he also rebelled a little. ...
WILLIE IRICK What Jesus did was not phony,
WILLIE DAVIS Our pitching. I told them that we're not going to do anything unless we pitched well. Our starters h...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I'm just glad someone from West Tennessee won a state title this year. Liberty's a great team. They ...
WILLIE KEMP It's overblown. It's whoever's hot at the right time. It does give you bragging rights, but you'd be...
WILLIE WILSON He's making good passes at the ball and not favoring the leg, so let's get it going. He's probably a...
WILLIE RANDOLPH We've got three or four guys on the depth chart who might step up and knock my socks off.
WILLIE RANDOLPH We're back to being Florida State. We got the hats. We got the T-shirts. We're going to the BCS. We'...
WILLIE REID They might be one-batter guys or two. Got to see what they look like.
WILLIE RANDOLPH It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.
WILLIE GEIST He brought a lot of enthusiasm and passion. He works his butt off and competes every day. In the pla...
WILLIE MITCHELL I told him that I’d prefer him not to do that, ... He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and,...
WILLIE RANDOLPH I told him that I'd prefer him not to do that. He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and, like ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH It's not ever just one guy, but Richard definitely makes a big difference. He's unstoppable if you t...
WILLIE MCGINEST Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute ...
WILLIE GEIST It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing b...
WILLIE GEIST Fatigue played in there, but we were able to muster some energy to come out with a win.
WILLIE MITCHELL I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
WILLIE NELSON If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what'...
WILLIE HERENTON The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's ...
WILLIE GEIST I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell any...
WILLIE MCCOVEY My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.
WILLIE AAMES They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
WILLIE MAYS You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.
WILLIE ROBERTSON We can use a little jolt or whatever,
WILLIE RANDOLPH We're pushing this week like it's a regular week. We haven't been told by the coaches that we weren'...
WILLIE ANDERSON Someone gave him a new knife.
WRONG WILLIE If hate changes, hate changes.
WILLIE HAYNES In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't dr...
WILLIE MAYS I slapped my wrist because of something happening on the court. It busted the crystal on it and tore...
WILLIE GRAHAM When we saw him in Spring Training, we knew he had some thunder in his hands. But he's been really g...
WILLIE RANDOLPH Spoilers are losers, ... I don't want to ever have my team feel good about being spoilers.
WILLIE RANDOLPH The unfair part is that juniors and seniors are not going to be grandfathered. The catalog when we e...
WILLIE LYLES Sometimes you go against guys who are bigger than you or over-mass your size, but it really doesn't ...
WILLIE MCGINEST My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-...
WILLIE GEIST The whole house came up and I came up with it, ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me...
WILLIE NELSON I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacat...
WILLIE GEIST The goal was to try and keep them in the 50s. But when you've got an outfit like that with so many p...
WILLIE SCHLARMAN Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're ...
WILLIE ROBERTSON Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hi...
WILLIE STARGELL I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
WILLIE STARGELL When you go 0-3, there's not a lot of satisfaction or sense of accomplishment. Obviously, guys are f...
WILLIE MITCHELL Vick is different than every other quarterback we've faced. Vick is one guy and of course, you've go...
WILLIE MCGINEST You can't leave Mickey (Mantle) off. Mickey would have to be in there.
WILLIE MAYS The home-field advantage in baseball, to me, I don't understand. I had to play as well on the road a...
WILLIE MAYS Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
WILLIE MAYS We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 inn...
WILLIE MAYS I went to three different rehabs: '98, '99 and then 2000.
WILLIE HOWARD We've had some successes and some failures.
WILLIE HOWARD Coming to a homeless shelter, trying to recover from alcoholism, I had to do something to turn my li...
WILLIE HOWARD We've said from the outset that we don't comment on speculation and it now appears that all this was...
WILLIE JACOBSZ We're assuming and hoping that he's going to be the guy.
WILLIE RANDOLPH I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. I...
WILLIE NELSON I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.
WILLIE RANDOLPH He just couldn't stop the avalanche.
WILLIE RANDOLPH People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole...
WILLIE STARGELL Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good. I felt this ain't right. I co...
WILLIE NELSON All the rehearsals and all the preparations and all the trial runs have now paid dividends, ... San ...
WILLIE BROWN When someone asks me what I'm trying to do, I tell them, I'm trying to do what I do when I do what I...
WILLIE HAYNES Keep me out of your business--and you keep me out of your business.
WILLIE HAYNES Old Generation: Man provides for the woman, children, and financial affairs within the household. Ne...
WILLIE HAYNES While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES Take away the spirit of a man, and you take away the man.
WILLIE HAYNES I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
WILLIE MAYS All I do is play music and golf -- which one do you want me to give up?
WILLIE NELSON I didn't want it to happen, but it has come down to age.
WILLIE ANDERSON My main thing is getting back into the pads,
WILLIE ANDERSON I almost died in the night water.
WILLIE ANDERSON The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we w...
WILLIE ANDERSON I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of...
WILLIE ANDERSON These guys have been successful for years. I've sat on opposing sidelines for years envying their su...
WILLIE ANDERSON It's big. This game usually is down the line in October or November. Starting off, I think it's goin...
WILLIE ANDERSON The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost, ... We committed a lot of penalties in games ...
WILLIE ANDERSON Guys were infuriated. But I know him. He's not a dirty player. His momentum just kept him going into...
WILLIE ANDERSON I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never le...
WILLIE AAMES