Jacob Walton quote: "I'll tell you this much: Corrigan pitched like he was No. 1. We really didn't play bad baseball at all. But we just couldn't do anything on offense, and we looked at too many pitches. Against a pitcher like him, that's going to happen sometimes."

It seemed like we slept through the first three innings and really put ourselves in a big hole. We n...
JACOB WALTON

This is what it is. We ... have a chance to get to 20 wins this season. That's something to be proud...
JACOB WALTON

It's about business and it's just a strict learning environment. There's no distractions. The teache...
JACOB WALTON

With us losing this game tonight, it makes it anybody's game. I'd like to say we would be able to ma...
JACOB WALTON

This was just a great game - two quality teams who battled all night. I hope they don't do this ever...
JACOB WALTON

We need to win this game. These next two weeks are going to be a test for us because we're playing s...
JACOB WALTON

Last Friday was a situation where it was pretty much a victory alone just coming to the game because...
JACOB WALTON

It's going to be a test this week with what we're going to do and how we're going to react to what h...
JACOB WALTON

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
SAM WALTON

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've b...
SAM WALTON

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
SAM WALTON

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly...
SAM WALTON

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
SAM WALTON

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
SAM WALTON

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
SAM WALTON

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for ...
SAM WALTON

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you...
SAM WALTON

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be br...
SAM WALTON

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, ...
SAM WALTON

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
SAM WALTON

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this f...
SAM WALTON

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
SAM WALTON

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitiv...
SAM WALTON

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They&#...
SAM WALTON

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would gi...
WALTON GOGGINS

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put...
WALTON GOGGINS

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I...
WALTON GOGGINS

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southe...
WALTON GOGGINS

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
WALTON GOGGINS

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfor...
WALTON GOGGINS

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
WALTON GOGGINS

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that...
WALTON GOGGINS

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very c...
WALTON GOGGINS

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have ...
WALTON GOGGINS

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script...
WALTON GOGGINS

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
WALTON GOGGINS

I don't take a scene or word for granted.
WALTON GOGGINS

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and obse...
WALTON GOGGINS

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people a...
WALTON GOGGINS

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own li...
WALTON GOGGINS

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed...
WALTON GOGGINS

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
IZAAK WALTON

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak...
SAM WALTON

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
BILL WALTON

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
SAM WALTON

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe...
SAM WALTON

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorit...
BILL WALTON

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
IZAAK WALTON

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
SAM WALTON

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
SAM WALTON

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It ex...
DONALD WALTON

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
IZAAK WALTON

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for heal...
IZAAK WALTON

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
IZAAK WALTON

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
IZAAK WALTON

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better b...
IZAAK WALTON

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
SAM WALTON

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
IZAAK WALTON

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on ...
SAM WALTON

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are stil...
TRAVIS WALTON

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
IZAAK WALTON

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for he...
IZAAK WALTON

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief ...
ANTHONY WALTON

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
IZAAK WALTON

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is t...
IZAAK WALTON

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to co...
JIM WALTON

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't w...
BILL WALTON

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization hold...
JIM WALTON

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise ...
ERNEST WALTON

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves c...
WALTON GOGGINS

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature...
IZAAK WALTON

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
IZAAK WALTON

We're all working together; that's the secret.
SAM WALTON

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them w...
SAM WALTON

High expectations are the key to everything.
SAM WALTON

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie...
SAM WALTON

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
SAM WALTON

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
BILL WALTON

My first series, I wouldn't even know where to get a clip of it. It was called 'Cracking Up....
DAVID WALTON

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.
BILL WALTON

Out of caution and concern for the well-being of young people, we report all of these cases.
ANDREW WALTON

They simply need to state the reason, if it's creating some kind of hardship for the person.
ANDREW WALTON

We have asked the people in the diocese to contact the governor's office, state senators (and) Assem...
ANDREW WALTON

They did not provide the services they said they'd provide. That was our original interest in having...
ANDREW WALTON

While revenues are relatively modest and, as previously indicated, will take a number of years to bu...
ANDREW WALTON

We thank teachers for their dedication and commitment and negotiating teams for good-faith efforts a...
ANDREW WALTON

We need to get food supplies up there.
ANDREW WALTON

You can only go so far
ANDREW WALTON

If we don't get people into shelters, they will die. It's as simple as that,
ANDREW WALTON

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of ...
JO WALTON

And that might just be the root of the problem: we’re all afraid of each other.
LESLYE WALTON

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
SAM WALTON

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
SAM WALTON

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
SAM WALTON

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat yo...
SAM WALTON

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just kee...
BILL WALTON

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to ma...
DAVID WALTON

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create val...
ALICE WALTON

As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to th...
ERNEST WALTON

Particles were coming out of the lithium, hitting the screen, and producing scintillations. They loo...
ERNEST WALTON

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creati...
BILL WALTON

I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rath...
WALTON GOGGINS

I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlike...
DAVID WALTON

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
IZAAK WALTON

Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
LESLYE WALTON

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular s...
JIM WALTON

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean P...
WALTON GOGGINS

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
ROB WALTON

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on en...
BILL WALTON

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent tw...
BILL WALTON

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the worl...
ROB WALTON

As our business was growing, when we took over the shop, our plan to start paying the taxes didn't w...
BILL WALTON

Currently, the green crab is viewed only as a pest species, ... The crab tends to eat what we eat. I...
BILL WALTON

Obviously you always want to win. You feel better when you get a win. I was especially happy with ou...
BILL WALTON

(Ole Miss) had a great week. Their team hit over .300, and they've done some good things. They're co...
BILL WALTON

The team seemed tired and lethargic (against Sacramento State) and not really mentally into playing ...
BILL WALTON

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, rese...
BILL WALTON

[Tim] Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind o...
BILL WALTON

If we knew what to look for, we could literally read the crab's shell to determine when it should mo...
BILL WALTON

I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Thei...
BILL WALTON

The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave ...
ERNEST WALTON

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before d...
JIM WALTON

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and...
BILL WALTON

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
BILL WALTON

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of ...
BILL WALTON

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
IZAAK WALTON

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, ...
IZAAK WALTON

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
IZAAK WALTON

No man can lose what he never had.
IZAAK WALTON

A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.
IZAAK WALTON

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
IZAAK WALTON

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
IZAAK WALTON

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
IZAAK WALTON

No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.
IZAAK WALTON

Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, ...
IZAAK WALTON

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning
IZAAK WALTON

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart
IZAAK WALTON

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for hea...
IZAAK WALTON

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing
IZAAK WALTON

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into conce...
ROB WALTON

When we first began visiting him, Charles would be very listless and non-responsive. Now, we're able...
TYE WALTON

I've heard people expressing absolute outrage. The problem with outrage is that it can tar the good ...
CRAIG WALTON

I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy...
DAVID WALTON

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and ...
BILL WALTON

Crystal Bridges is a wonderful way to build appreciation for America's artistic heritage and create ...
ALICE WALTON

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will ...
DAVID WALTON

Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, ha...
EVANGELINE WALTON

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for ...
ROB WALTON

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
DAVID WALTON

You'll just push your cart past the checkout point or maybe you'll put out a belt at the checkout po...
CHARLES WALTON

They (Nelson and Littlejohn) came in playing a game. That helped Stacey stop analyzing every pitch a...
TIM WALTON

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you ca...
ALICE WALTON

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
IZAAK WALTON

I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for so...
JO WALTON

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimmin...
BILL WALTON

It was really heavily planted with lilacs. That was something that was unique, then.
LIZ WALTON

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
SAM WALTON

He's really good, definitely opens your eyes, ... When we see him run we're like, wow, he's only a s...
CHRIS WALTON

I feel very confident about what we can get done here, ... They already have an established traditio...
BILL WALTON

Winning and losing isn't important to me so much as playing to a certain level. If we play to the le...
BILL WALTON

We don't know anything about Arkansas and Miami because they haven't played yet, and Ole Miss played...
BILL WALTON

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless str...
BILL WALTON

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of West...
BILL WALTON

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is rea...
BILL WALTON

What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
SAM WALTON

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler
IZAAK WALTON

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
LESLYE WALTON

I know our guys understand who our best opponents are going to be this season and know how important...
JOEL WALTON

I was pleased with the job we did in game two. I felt like we really found our rhythm, and the guys ...
JOEL WALTON

This is a really critical match. Our focus this week will be square on Loyola. We have to beat them ...
JOEL WALTON

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty g...
JOEL WALTON

[The win] was big. It has been since 2000 that we've gone in there and beat them. We never relaxed. ...
JOEL WALTON

You have to serve in time and time again. What we want out of our guys is the first ball they serve ...
JOEL WALTON

He has everything a top coach has. He has the leadership, the passion, the commitment, the dedicatio...
BILL WALTON

literally circled the globe with bureaus, from Baghdad to Johannesburg to Havana to Sydney to Hong K...
JIM WALTON

What Officer Davis didn't anticipate after he stopped one drunk driver was another drunk driver goin...
PAUL WALTON

I couldn't pass it up, ... You get excited. ... It's a very prestigious program.
BILL WALTON

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie...
SAM WALTON

No man can lose what he never had
IZAAK WALTON

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
BILL WALTON

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when sh...
EVANGELINE WALTON

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot m...
SAM WALTON

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
JO WALTON

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
JO WALTON

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...
JO WALTON

Are these black cats like the hare?"

"No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with...
EVANGELINE WALTON

He's a big boy. I've never even stood beside someone that big.
JOEL WALTON

Whenever a member of the team can't participate anymore, there's this void because suddenly it seems...
BILL WALTON

Fourth-quarter earnings per share were about in line with consensus. Given strong results throughout...
MYLES WALTON

I still can't believe it was news that I get my hair cut at the barbershop. Where else would I get i...
SAM WALTON

It's probably not as progressive politically as it used to be, ... We still have echoes of that, but...
RICHARD WALTON

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just tryi...
SAM WALTON

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen u...
SAM WALTON

We're all working together; that's the secret.
SAM WALTON

St. Francis is a good team. They are a team that could begin to vie for East Coast championships. Th...
JOEL WALTON

I'll tell you this much: Corrigan pitched like he was No. 1. We really didn't play bad baseball at all. But we just couldn't do anything on offense, and we looked at too many pitches. Against a pitcher like him, that's going to happen sometimes.

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Jacob Walton

I'll tell you this much: Corrigan pitched like he was No. 1. We really didn't play bad baseball at all. But we just couldn't do anything on offense, and we looked at too many pitches. Against a pitcher like him, that's going to happen sometimes.

Jacob Walton

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