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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
Bashful
Mean

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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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Defense to me is the key to playing 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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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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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 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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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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 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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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
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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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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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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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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
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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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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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