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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

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
Baseball
Everything
Always
Life
Like
Adjusts
Survives
Reflection

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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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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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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
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I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
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I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
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I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
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The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
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I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
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We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
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To be successful, one must take chances.
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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 see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
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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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When they start the game, they don't yell, Work ball. They say, Play ball.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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