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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
Willie Stargell
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Willie Stargell
Age: 71 †
Born: 1940
Born: March 6
Died: 2011
Died: December 17
Baseball Player
Earlsboro
Oklahoma
Wilver Dornell Stargell
Wilver Stargell
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
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Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.
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If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
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I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.
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I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
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I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
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I've always been a slave to my heart.
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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
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When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
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I love September, especially when we're in it.
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Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
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I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
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I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
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Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
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You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
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There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
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