Willie Mays

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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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

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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. ↗

— Willie Mays

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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

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

— Willie Mays

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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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It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. ↗

— Willie Mays

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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. ↗

— Willie Mays

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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

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

— Willie Mays

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