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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

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Willie Mays
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: May 6
Baseball Player
Jefferson County
Alabama
Willie Howard Mays Jr.
Willie Howard Mays
The Say Hey Kid
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When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act
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In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
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I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.
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What's tough is being good every day.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes
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