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)

    If women were umpiring none of this [rowdyism] would happen. Do you suppose any ball player in the country would step up to a good-looking girl and say to her, “You color- blind, pickle-brained, cross-eyed idiot, if you don’t stop throwing the soup into me I’ll distribute your features all over you countenance!” Of course he wouldn’t.
    Amanda Clement (1888–1971)