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Willie Mays Quotes
And my father didnt have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didnt have black quarterbacks, and I dont think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5 11 . So I just picked baseball. - Willie Mays Quotes
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. - Willie Mays Quotes
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. - Willie Mays Quotes
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball. - Willie Mays Quotes
Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. - Willie Mays Quotes
I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didnt matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. - Willie Mays Quotes
I didnt say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing. - Willie Mays Quotes
I dont compare em, I just catch em. - Willie Mays Quotes
I dont mean to be bashful, but I was. - Willie Mays Quotes
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days. - Willie Mays Quotes
I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play. - Willie Mays Quotes
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. - Willie Mays Quotes
I think that all athletes should practice. They should practice, because you want to know whats happening as far as - when the game is concerned. - Willie Mays Quotes
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and youll never have a problem. Thats what I did. - Willie Mays Quotes
I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something. - Willie Mays Quotes
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really dont have a good life. - Willie Mays Quotes
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park. - Willie Mays Quotes
Im a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game. - Willie Mays Quotes
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then youre a good ballplayer. - Willie Mays Quotes
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldnt drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing. - Willie Mays Quotes
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you wont be able to do this. - Willie Mays Quotes
Its not hard. When Im not hitting, I dont hit nobody. But when Im hitting, I hit anybody. - Willie Mays Quotes
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. - Willie Mays Quotes
People talk about that catch and, Ive said this many times, that Ive made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didnt have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didnt see me do a lot of things. - Willie Mays Quotes
Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. - Willie Mays Quotes
Thats how easy baseball was for me. Im not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. - Willie Mays Quotes
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have. - Willie Mays Quotes
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. - Willie Mays Quotes
When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was. - Willie Mays Quotes
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two oclock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. - Willie Mays Quotes
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