Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid) Quotes
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.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
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I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.
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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.
