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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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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
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I've always been a slave to my heart.
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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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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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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 gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.
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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
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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'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
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To be successful, one must take chances.
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Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
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I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
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I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
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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 was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
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