Quotes of Willie - somelinesforyou

“ Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. ”

- Jerry Coleman

“ If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. ”

- Chuck Tanner

“ You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams… ”

- Herb Brooks

“ My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.' She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy. ”

- Pat Conroy
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