Willie Mays Quotes

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• What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

  Willie Mays

  Thinking, Differences, Mind

  Willie Mays, Charles Einstein (1966). “Willie Mays: My Life in and Out of Baseball”

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• 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 won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

  Willie Mays

  Dedication, Order, Devotion

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• Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

  Willie Mays

  Guy, Other Guys, Assuming

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• I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

  "Willie Mays Remembers Mentor Monte Irvin". "All Things Considered" with Laura Wagner, www.npr.org. January 13, 2016.

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• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• What's tough is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Sports, Game Day

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• Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Looks, Jackie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Eye, Player

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• Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

  Willie Mays

  Play, Balls, Born

  Willie Mays, Charles Einstein (1955). “Born to play ball”

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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 stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Good Life, Play

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

  Willie Mays

  League, Littles, Little League

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• 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 was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

  Willie Mays

  Kids, White, Issues

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• 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

  Baseball, Games, Pace

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• I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

  Willie Mays

  Walking Away, Games, Trying

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• 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 parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

  Willie Mays

  Car, Community, Giants

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

  Willie Mays

  Hitting

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• 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 you're a good ballplayer.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Running, Games

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• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

  Willie Mays

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• "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 think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  "What It Takes: Willie Mays". Interview with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
  wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
  was the best all-around player. Joe
  was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  Willie Mays

  Hero, Player, Problem

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• I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

  Willie Mays

  Black, Making Money, Birmingham

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Gentility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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