Johnny Haynes/first %c2%a3100-per-week Player

Famous quotes containing the words johnny and/or player:

    The very last words he ever said were, “High-low Jack and the
    game.”
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 44)

    The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)