In ninth grade and 10th, he did basketball, [but] I always told him to wrestle. Basketball wasn't working out for him.


Billy Mcallister

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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER
Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL
The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY
I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN
A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN
The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN
For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN
Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN
By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN
The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS
He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY
When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER
I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM