Billy Williams Quotes

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

Never was a memorial yet erected that was not subject to criticism.

Architecture has paid high tribute to the leaders of mankind.

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.

I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.