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.
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.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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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.
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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.
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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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
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