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 You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.
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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
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
I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.
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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.
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I think that all athletes should practice. They should practice, because you want to know what's happening as far as - when the game is concerned.
Willie Mays
It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
Willie Mays
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