Johnny Quotations | Page 3

These songs are Johnny's final statement. They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear.

When you get Johnny into the fifth and you've got Lorenzo coming on, you figure you're all right.

When I would go on stage and say, 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash,' you're not trying to say it like John does, but trying to capture what propelled him to say, 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash,' when everybody already knew who he was. What I was trying to do was really try to find the man behind all that.

I've not met Elvis or Jim Morrison, but Jimi Hendrix, Johnny and I used to jam at a club in New York called The Scene where the house band was the Young Rascals, so I did get to meet Jimi.

I've played with these guys for a very long time and won a championship with these guys, so they're very special to me. Doug, Kevin, Johnny and Bill brought intangibles of playing hard, getting dirty and grinding out games. You appreciate playing with people like that, and you hope that it isn't lost by whoever they do bring in.

They all really feed off each other. Johnny has been around the block, and they're able to watch him from close up. Johnny, besides being a very good fielder, is very sound fundamentally. So they're able to emulate him and follow things that he does. I've been pleased that they've been down here and are working their tails off.

It was unbelievably hard to get this done, ... Over the years, Johnny understood. He was patient beyond belief. I'd tell him that people are frightened of musical films, but even more so they're frightened of movies that require the talent to be successful in order for the film to be successful. It's much easier to make a comic book.

You forget about the social side of 'Survivor.' You don't really understand when you start talking about yourself and how other people around you see you, ... And you have those people you had Brian. I had little Johnny rotten who just kind of feeds you and push you into talking about yourself, telling different things. I was yelling at the TV last night saying: You got to stop it. You got to back it down.

Broadway has never been hospitable to country music, so it will be interesting to see if the Johnny Cash show can survive.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

After a fairly extensive search, I'm tickled to land Johnny on the staff. He's got major league experience as a player and experience as a coach. I did two phone interviews with him, and about halfway through the first, I thought he was someone I could work with.

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

After the first three starts, I'm like, OK, now I have a feel for all my pitches so I was telling (catcher) Johnny (Estrada), let's use all three. I just want to build off this and try to get better as we go along.

Dell has not seen the success in China that it's seen in the U.S., and now its top two China guys are gone. It's a crushing blow for Dell in Asia in the same way Johnny Damon signing with the Yankees hurts the Red Sox's chances this year.

Coach wants us to get in more, attack more with numbers. Johnny made a nice cut and Delicate a nice run. I just ran right behind him.

Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon -- he is his own player. He brings his own strengths. Johnny was an outstanding, elite leadoff guy and center fielder for us for four years. It's unfair to ask Coco Crisp to fill those shoes. He's going to go and do it his own way.

Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon. He's his own player. He brings his own strengths.

Ball got the ball to me with a back-heel flip over his head and I just had to touch it in. Johnny did all the hard work.

That show was great. He was up there in his traditional black garb and when he said his opening line, 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash,' the crowd went nuts. It was awesome.

They tried to take him right out of the ballgame. To his credit he didn't force it. (His teammates) can't rely on him to do everything. When people see what his teammates can do, they have to decide if you want to play Johnny that way.

They're very different people. Johnny is aggressive, no bull crap. This is the business. He's the enforcer in the class. Cannon is the friend. He's there. He's the good guy, ... The good cop/bad cop thing is really vital to the success of the comics coming out of there.

Teams try to take Johnny out of the game by beating him up. It usually doesn't bother him. Tonight, he let it get to him a little bit. Sometimes we forget he's only a sophomore and he's 15.

There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.

There's not a man in here who doesn't realize Johnny Damon makes us go. He's very important to us.

I've been a bit crook lately and had to go to hospital for a couple of weeks, so I gave the horses to Johnny to look after while I was away.

The way that he feels about Johnny Carson is the way that all of us, the comedians of our era, feel about him.

In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.

I'm biased, but I think Johnny was tremendously valuable to the Red Sox, from a couple of standpoints. The first one being what he did for their team and the second one being what he could do to their team if he played for somebody else -- particularly the Yankees.

If parents want Johnny to eat chips one day a week, they can go in and make changes to allow them to buy a bag of chips on, say, Fridays.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

I had a real good feeling about Johnny slapping a double into the gap or something. What makes our lineup tough is that if it's not one guy, it can be another.

I had tears in my eyes. I was surprised that I couldn't control myself. To hear the kind words from Tony and Vladislav was very special. And Johnny is a real inspiration to me, such a nice man, always with something positive to say.

I knew I wanted to make a movie about Johnny Cash since '96, but my first exposure to Cash was the live Folsom Prison album on my dad's shelf, ... I saw Cash's incredibly ravaged face with a rivulet of sweat running down his cheek on the cover. And when I listened to it, I heard all these men cheering - guys in prison. He's singing about murder and they're all cheering. There's such an incredibly rebellious attitude in that material and such danger that even as a kid it stood out to me.

I'm really indebted to Johnny. He was my first musical hero. Were it not for him, things would have happened quite differently. I can envision myself as maybe a starving jazz musician. I never had any inclination towards fame or stardom. I just love music. Johnny was more ambitious and outgoing. I was the weird and quiet guy who played all the instruments.

If you're getting hits, hey, you don't have to walk. You can get on base other ways. He'll bunt more. He'll do a lot of other little small things. Johnny was pretty much a power leadoff hitter. This guy is a different kind of hitter.

So far, Johnny X has shown a bit more than most. He's one for the future. He's one that you look at and spend some time on. He's a threat. He has good pace. He's got an eye for the goal.

I'm not down on Evan Crawford or Johnny Thompson. Both of them had to scuffle tonight for the first time in a long, long time.

I'm not going to sit and say that it was one of Johnny's best days. ... There were some plays I think he'd like back. But I know Johnny and Johnny will bounce back and have a much better day.

As I was watching Dave talking about Johnny Carson, the way he feels about Carson is the way we, the comedians of our generation, feel about him,

(Assistant coach Johnny Kidd) put the keys to the game on the board before the game, which is important. But I said, 'You've got to remember, 90 percent of your brain has got to be filled with heart and desire.' You've got to respect the basketball and do the technical things, but you've got to play with a lot of heart.

Everybody is in different places with regards to time, but parents are always welcome. A ton of parents never make themselves known to the coach. They're not on a first-name basis. It says a lot when you come and drop Johnny or Mary off, reach out to the coach, ask how he or she might be better supported by the parent. Creating that line of conversation is a great way to start.

Everybody sees Johnny Damon for long hair and the beard, but he's a great, great teammate. He's fun to play with. He'll be fun for this team. I think they'll really enjoy having Johnny around.

It turns out Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, was a real historical figure who played a very important role in the frontier in the Northwest territory.

The thing I remember is that Johnny Bench hit that ball further than I'd ever seen a human being hit a baseball. I don't know how far he hit it, but it was a shot.

This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead,

This is like Johnny Damon leaving the Red Sox - except Arnold isn't the Yankees.

The next thing I knew, there was Johnny standing there. He went through the whole thing with me. That's just the type of person he is.

It's sad and it's good. I'm sure I will spend a lot of time here. Of course, it's like Johnny never left. He is still in my heart.

I want the Johnny Damon that is fun-loving, keeps people loose, is a positive-attitude guy both on and off the field, in the clubhouse, and when he shows up for work, he has an infectious impact on the other guys. I don't want him to tone that down at all. I want the real guy.

It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.

I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

If Yucca Mountain Johnny was depicted as an atom bomb, it would make a different point.

I'll have to say it's very much in the air where Johnny Damon's going to be next year.

I'll have to say it's very much it's very much in the air where Johnny Damon's going to be next year.

He's witty and quick, and Johnny has a lot of fun. He'll be a good mix with the guys.

How does Johnny Cash say it? I'm in pretty good shape ...

He's our catalyst, he means everything to this team. I think there's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny kind of makes us go. He's very, very important to us. I know he's a tough player and he'll be back out on the field for us soon.

How big has Hector Luna been the last week? ... And Johnny ... we're getting guys good opportunities in good games. We're going to need them (in the postseason). Just by doing what they've done has helped the whole club.

It was just the most fantastic day. We made this film, because Johnny Cash asked him to make it ... This is a man and a woman who were very close to us and who had a very special connection to us.

It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.

It was magical to be able to explore the young Johnny Cash and his music. But you worry about people's expectations. There's a concern about people saying, 'Well, that's not Johnny Cash'.

It was one of those nights where they got to Johnny in the first couple of innings and got two runs right away. They got off to a 4-0 lead after six. At that point we felt like it was time to get Johnny out of there. Maybe save his arm a little bit.

I remember being real concerned about the music and singing -- that's something we were both concerned about -- and Jim said if people want to hear Johnny Cash, they can get a Johnny Cash record, he's made a few.

The goal deflated us, but we didn't grab a hold of ourselves; we went the other way and it snowballed on us. It's a time of the game where we have to help Johnny out and get back in the game, and we didn't do that tonight and that's why it went that way. It's not good enough right now.

The first time I went to meet Terry, I said, 'Why isn't Johnny Depp doing this movie?'

This is no longer as case of 'Johnny can't read,' ... It's Johnny won't read.'

Andre gets in foul trouble, wasn't able to play a lot of minutes, Johnny and Kyle come in and do a very nice job, and then Andre comes back in at the end of the game and defends Tracy (McGrady) extremely well.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

A business man on Wall Street is going to wear a suit, Johnny Damon is going to put on his Red Sox jersey, and when we play we do the suit thing. The only thing we have to argue over is what color shirt we're going to wear today.

For 30 years (the late) Johnny Warren talked about an English 'mafia' in Australian coaching,

It's taken 45 years but Johnny Lee Roberts has finally felt comfortable enough to tell the truth of what happened to Kennard. His courage is now causing others to come forward, including prominent whites, to express their long-held misgivings about Kennard's conviction.

It's not as bad as it seems. His head's big as a Volkswagen . Johnny can't miss that head.

It's so satisfying to meet Johnny Bench and to be with the two players that were up for the award with me. It's definitely a great way to end a great season and something I'll remember for the rest of my life.

They (people) suddenly have their interest piqued in Johnny Carson. Clearly, the first week is pretty strong. Then it drops off pretty quickly.

They go in their labs and they turn the lights off and they don't shave for two or three days and they come out and feel like they've got the answers to the world. The truth is the players are the guys that win the games. It's much more Johnny and Joes than X's and O's.

It's karma. All Johnny Pun did was good. His whole life was about doing good for others.

We were playing Johnny Rivers' song 'Memphis,' when halfway through the song, the lights went out. I just kept playing. The producer came up to me and said, 'whatever you do, don't stop playing.' There would have been a riot or something with 150,000 people and it was hot, the Fourth of July.

It was straight-up luck, ... just threw his arms up and he hit the ball. He just happened to be Johnny on the spot. It was a well-executed play. I came scot-free across the middle. We won three games like that, and sometimes those games go the other way.

This was absolutely an important win for us. We had been out of sink in our last few games. We came out and put it all together tonight. Johnny was great tonight, and he's been like this all season. That's why he's our ace.

A big, hairy guy comes to New York and takes the city by storm. Am I talking about the remake of King Kong, or Johnny Damon?

It's hard to not ask for an autograph. We went to the banquet and here I was around Johnny Damon and everyone. The way you are treated, this has all been so unreal.

It's always big to score a basket like that at the end of a period. Schuster made a great pass, and Johnny scored. It gave us a big boost going into halftime.

It's going to be very difficult seeing him in a different uniform, to be honest with you. We didn't want to see Johnny play for another team. I know I didn't want to see Johnny play for another team.

I am not going to get upset over Johnny taking shots. I did say the next time he has that opportunity to drive the basketball. We were in the penalty, so drive the ball, maybe get a foul, or the defense collapses and kick it out.

I couldn't believe it was going to be a close play, and all of sudden he (catcher Johnny Estrada) had the ball before I even started sliding. It was a great play on their part.

I don't want to get in the way of Johnny with his Kentucky Derby mounts. This was a particularly hard decision, because anyone who works or trains or is around Keyed Entry knows how good he is. You'd want to stay with a horse like that as long as possible. He's undefeated. He's training super. In a perfect world, Keyed Entry would already have gone two turns, so Johnny could have made a better comparison with Bluegrass Cat. Bluegrass Cat already has been a mile and an eighth, and he's already been a mile and a sixteenth this year. I think it came down to that.

I felt that, all things being equal, he'd go back to Boston. As the process went about, reading the newspapers, seeing that their offer was at three or four years, I thought, 'I have to personally talk to Johnny myself.' I thought we had to bring this to a halt, not let this drag out.

He's not a typical Storm Cat in that he has a great mind. You wouldn't know that he was in the barn until he's around the gate or right after the race. He gets a little pumped up. When Todd ran him the first time and he won, when they got him back to the winner's circle he reared straight up on his hind legs. Johnny actually had to come off of him. They put Johnny back on and he did it again. So now we're pretty cautious because you don't want to get him hurt for something stupid like a photo. But ever since then, he's gotten better.

He's not disappointed. He's (ticked) off. I want him (ticked) off. I think it's fantastic for the Tampa Bay Lightning. To me, there's nothing better than an aggravated player, and Johnny is aggravated.

He admitted Miramax wouldn't make the film with Johnny and that I was their choice. They thought Johnny was too weird and didn't have any box-office clout.

He came around the corner for this concert scene and he just had the swagger and confidence, ... He was Johnny Cash - badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting is.

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

The man in black turns sunshine yellow in 'Ring of Fire,' the show that strings songs associated with Johnny Cash into an artificially sweetened candy necklace.

Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite. It was obvious we were from the same side of town . . . the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. I liked his version (of 'Positively 4th Street) better than mine.

Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been ... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali . . . and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali.

Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.

Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats

I've wanted to do it since I was 14 years old, from watching 'The Tonight Show,' watching Johnny (Carson) and the other comedians. Something clicked in me that I wanted to be one of those guys, someone who came out and made the audience laugh.