Honus Quotes

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. ~ John McGraw

I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum. ~ Honus Wagner

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him. ~ John McGraw

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes. ~ Burleigh Grimes

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em. ~ Honus Wagner

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom. ~ Kate Klimo

I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me. ~ Waite Hoyt

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars. ~ Honus Wagner

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer. ~ Honus Wagner