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 chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)