Top 67 Quotes About Willie Mays

#1. If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Mickey Mantle

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

Willie Mays

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#3. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

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#4. They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

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#5. As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'

Cheech Marin

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

Gabe Paul

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#10. I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

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#13. 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

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#14. There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

Tallulah Bankhead

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#15. Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

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#16. What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

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#17. When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

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#18. Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

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#19. I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

Allan Ray

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#20. I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

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#21. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

Willie Mays

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#22. 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.

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#23. What's tough is being good every day.

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#24. It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

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#25. A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball. These guys got their power from living lives perfectly suited to their natures. Same with Clinton: his life is perfectly suited to his nature.

George Saunders

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#26. 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.

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#27. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

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#28. Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

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#29. Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Eric Davis

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

Willie Mays

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#31. 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.

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#32. I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

George W. Bush

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#33. They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Ted Williams

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#34. There have only been two geniuses in the world - Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Tallulah Bankhead

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#35. To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

Roy Campanella

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#36. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

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#37. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

Sandy Koufax

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#38. 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.

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#39. Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

David Duchovny

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#40. I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

Eric Davis

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

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#44. Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

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#45. 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.

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#46. Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

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#47. 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.

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#48. I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

Eric Davis

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#49. Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

Doug Harvey

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#50. I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

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#51. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.

Ken Griffey Jr.

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#52. 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

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#53. He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

Warren Spahn

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#54. 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

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#55. Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

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#56. Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

Pete Rose

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#57. I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Willie Mays

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#58. I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

Monte Irvin

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#59. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

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#60. 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.

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#61. I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

Barry Bonds

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#62. I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

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#63. I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

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#64. I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

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#65. I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

Monte Irvin

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#66. With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Ernie Harwell

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#67. I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.

Ted Kluszewski

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