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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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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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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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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
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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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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 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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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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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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