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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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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 didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
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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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I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
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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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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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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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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 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 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 think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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What's tough is being good every day.
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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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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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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
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