Willie Stargell Quotes
- 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…
- Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
- My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
- I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
- They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
- Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
- That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
- Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
- 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…
- Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city…
- You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
- Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.
- To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
- To be successful, one must take chances.
- Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
- Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
- I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
- Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
- I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
- I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.