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When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

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
Hitting
Anybody
Nobody

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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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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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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
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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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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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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 think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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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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