I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
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Hopefully, they can say, There goes the best baseball player in the world. I honestly believe I did everything in baseball that a baseball player can do, and I did it with love.Willie Mays
People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.
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When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.
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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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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.
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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 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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