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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

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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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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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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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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. 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'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
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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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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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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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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing
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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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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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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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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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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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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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