Walter Johnson Quotes

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

Walter Johnson

• Man
• Alive
• Wood

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

Walter Johnson

• Think
• I Can
• Throw

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

• Men
• Kids
• Man

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

Walter Johnson

• Baseball
• Butterfly
• Bee

You can't hit what you can't see.

Walter Johnson

• You
• See
• Hit

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

• Earth
• Waiting
• Baseball

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

Walter Johnson

• Cost
• Alternatives

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

Walter Johnson

• Saws
• Pitching
• Roger

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

Walter Johnson

• Pitching
• Bob

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

• Home
• Running
• Player