When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.


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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
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
There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.
WILLIE SUTTON
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
I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.
WILLIE AAMES
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
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