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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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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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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 don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.
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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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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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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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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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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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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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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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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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