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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

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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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Baseball
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Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.
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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
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And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11. So I just picked baseball.
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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
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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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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 order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
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I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
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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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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
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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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