Willie Mays Quotes - Page 2

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• The catch off Bobby Morgan
  (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
  and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
  were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes

  Willie Mays

  Eye, People, Saws

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

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Ems, Compare

  Newsday, September 30, 1954.

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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.

  Willie Mays

  Years, Games, 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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• At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Years, Guy

  "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 was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Games, Two

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

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• 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

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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 mean to be bashful, but I was

  Willie Mays

  Mean, Bashful

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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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• 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.

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

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Balls, Gloves

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• Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.

  Willie Mays

  Life, People, Helping

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

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• I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

  Willie Mays

  Thinking, Play, Good Things

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• I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

  Willie Mays

  Hurt, Blessed, Body

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

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• 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.

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