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.
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GAYLE KING I had a lot of maintenance my first year because we had six outfielders, so there were three guys ev... KEN MACHA My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park, BOBBY FLAY I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a ... HOBART ALTER I knew how to get hold of Lalo, ... and Willie G, who used to be with the Midnighters - I gave Ry th... DAVID HIDALGO My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou... DIERKS BENTLEY I wish Willie [Bloomquist] was here with us so we could have all three of them working out together.... CARLOS GARCIA I think, for the first time, it turned out well. Good crowd out here - it was a great game. We hope ... COREY ROLLERSON I am happy that the surgery was a success. I have been in contact with Willie?s agent and we are exp... BILLY KING When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing. PAUL TSONGAS Willie Mays is probably the oldest one. He was the first one made. But I hate to pull favorites. HARVEY HODGERNEY Willie ran an incredible time and really came through. Christian's been steady for us his year and w... DREW YOAKUM We were doing a fake slant to me and a pitch to Willie, and from what Tommy was saying he had a hard... DAN KREIDER Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a co... REBECCA PIDGEON Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in ... DAN DECARLO I was there and I saw absolutely no evidence to back this up. I didn't even see Willie Johnston taki... JOE JORDAN I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward. AMAR'E STOUDEMIRE I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own ... DEIRDRE O'KANE I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous. SHANE MCANALLY I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo... DEREK JETER I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived. MONTE IRVIN I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppe... FRANK OZ You have to understand, we went through the same thing last year. I was out there, I got hurt; Jerom... DUCE STALEY I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. GREGG ALLMAN It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It was great. The weather was beautiful. We were on just beautiful, well-manicured diamonds every da... BROOKE VAN LANEN When I told (my wife) Pat (that I was coming back), she said you're going to ruin your good name. Af... JOE GIBBS Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man&... C. THOMAS HOWELL Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. I... JACKIE EARLE HALEY I went to Atlanta this summer and worked out with some of my buddies who were training for the NFL D... DAVID MILLER Any time you think about Atlanta Braves baseball, you think about the postseason and success, ... Co... TIM HUDSON I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the network... BILL COSBY My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along bec... SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n... BILL DIXON If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300. ERNIE CARSON Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. DOUG HARVEY I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ... FLORENCE WELCH I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job becaus... FERRAN ADRIA [What about remarks from the actor that he's getting too old to play an immortal vampire who never a... JOSS WHEDON It was a lot different. Last year I used to get the defensive calls from [former assistant coach] Da... ANDREW FODERA I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays. ERIC DAVIS When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,... TODRICK HALL I was lost. I had never broken in a first baseman?s mitt and there was no one on the team who could ... JUSTIN MILLER I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singi... LESLEY ANN WARREN I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which ... RAHM EMANUEL I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ... VAN TURNER There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of la... ED SMITH Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over... DAVID DUCHOVNY I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I wa... CARSON DALY Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level. BENMONT TENCH I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit... TODD ENGLISH The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it... NICK FLYNN We knew that Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan did it last summer with great success, RICK ALLEN [Several Ohio State coaches surrounded him and the speaker phone was engaged when an anxious Pickett... RYAN PICKETT After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if ... DAVID RICARDO It's a great piece. It's about 200 years old. We're trying to give it a 200-year birthday party. LOUIS LANE About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le B... CHARLES LINDBERGH The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has... CARLISLE FLOYD I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I... CANDACE BUSHNELL I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arr... OTIS RUSH The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it. ROGER AILES When we first started running, I was getting calls and letters from people with disabilities that we... DICK HOYT I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins -... JOHN LEWIS There were 10,000 18-year-old girls at the MTV awards and I wanted to look cool. VAL KILMER When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinn... NATHAN MYHRVOLD Harvey and I grew up in Queens, N.Y. My brother and I shared a room for 18 years until we went away ... BOB WEINSTEIN When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was worki... EDDIE MARSAN I need to keep Willie alive. EMMETT KELLY I RAISED AN EYEBROW AT HIM, AND HE STUCK OUT HIS TONGUE AND CROSSED HIS EYES WHEN JOSH TURNED AWAY F... JAMES PATTERSON I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field p... TIM TEBOW We've seen how he cares about people, and he's had adversity in his life. Willie cares. WILLIE NELSON I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of p... JOHN WAYNE I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl's name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, i... LINDA HALL I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most popular girl's name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, i... LINDA HALL I was born in 1948. That year, Linda was the most-popular girl's name. Actually from 1945 to 1954, i... LINDA HALL I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. ROBBIE ROBERTSON My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew t... CLAIRE DANES It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ... TIG NOTARO Willie works hard. He's a real competitor. I was glad to see him have some success. DAVE MOHAPP I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single product... DACRE MONTGOMERY It was really exciting. But I really only got about three shots, maybe. ... We boxed out, and it loo... JEFF BLAIR I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worke... PAUL HAGGIS I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that ... SEAN COMBS There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily differen... MARK HADDON Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the l... BIBLE I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,... LAURA DERN It was a fun day of entertainment. There was no comparison between the second show and the first sho... DENNIS CRAWFORD I have already played him three times and I knew what to expect from him. I was hanging in there wai... RADEK STEPANEK Whether the ball hit him or not, he interfered with Erstad trying to catch the ball, ... I don't thi... JOE WEST During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s... EDITH WIDDER There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'dea... JAMES ROSENQUIST The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first foo... BILL GOLDBERG I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American po... NIGEL HAMILTON
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