Walter Johnson Quotes

• You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Pitching, Twins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

  Walter Johnson

  Thinking, Pitching, Hard

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• The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

  Walter Johnson

  Alternatives, Cost

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• Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

  Walter Johnson

  Men, Alive, Pitching

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• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Waiting, Bats

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• I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

  Walter Johnson

  Kids, Men, Rookies

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• Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

  Walter Johnson

  Pitching, Roger, Saws

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• (Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

  Walter Johnson

  Bob, Pitching

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