Willie Mays Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

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

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

• 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.

• 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

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

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Looks, Jackie

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Balls, Gloves

• I don't rate them, I just hit them.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Rate

• I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Ems, Compare

  Newsday, September 30, 1954.

• 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 you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Being Yourself, Player

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

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Gentility

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

• 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 player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Player, Guy

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

• 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

  Baseball, College, Thinking

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler., learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

• Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

  Willie Mays

  Success, Baseball, Running

• 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 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

  Baseball, Years, Games

  Interview with Willie Mays, Academy of Achievement, February 19, 1996.

• 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.

• "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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