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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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Flats
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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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I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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To be successful, one must take chances.
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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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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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The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
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I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
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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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Helping someone is what life is all about.
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I love September, especially when we're in it.
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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 never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
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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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We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
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When they start the game, they don't yell, Work ball. They say, Play ball.
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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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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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