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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
Baseball
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Player
Best
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I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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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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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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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 didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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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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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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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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