Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Baseball is a team game.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
