Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Honus Wagner.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner, sometimes referred to as "Hans" Wagner, was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won his eighth batting title in 1911, a National League record that remains unbroken to this day, and matched only once, in 1997, by Tony Gwynn. He also led the league in slugging six times and stolen bases five times. Wagner was nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman" due to his superb speed and German heritage. This nickname was a nod to the popular folk-tale made into a famous opera by the German composer Richard Wagner.
In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members. He received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb's 222 and tied with Babe Ruth at 215.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.
I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.