Willie Mays Quotes

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• 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…
• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.
• I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.
• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
• I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
• When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
• 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…
• When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
• When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game.…
• Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
• I don't mean to be bashful, but I was
• I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue…
• I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a…
• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball
• In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the…
• 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…
• 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…
• I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days
• "And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't…
• That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball…

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