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
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'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