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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.
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 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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What's tough is being good every day.
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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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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 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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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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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 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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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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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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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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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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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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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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When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
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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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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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