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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.
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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I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
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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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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
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Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
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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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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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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
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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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