I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 1
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing. Willie Mays American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Willie Mays Quotes 0