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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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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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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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Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
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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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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
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The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
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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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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 love September, especially when we're in it.
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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 never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
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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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I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
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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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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.
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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 was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
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