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I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
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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Never
Life
Allow
Sports
Keep
Kids
Part
Anything
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Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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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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Don't be sharp or flat just be natural.
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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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I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
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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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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
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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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