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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
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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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I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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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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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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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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What's tough is being good every day.
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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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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
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If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
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When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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