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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly 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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More quotes by Willie Mays
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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What's tough is being good every day.
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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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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
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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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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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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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If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
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I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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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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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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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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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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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 think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
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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