#om

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

#also #baseball #business #combat #disguised

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. ↗

— Willie Mays

#always #ball #black #comfortable #enjoyed

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

#blessed #body #exhausted #get #go

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

#car #community #could #drive #everybody

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. ↗

— Willie Mays

#calling #had #important #into #jackie

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. ↗

— Willie Mays

#baseball #being #business #business world #challenge

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#career #competing #continue #enjoyed #fans

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#come #i #lie #long #long way

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#circle #home #i #i am #once

Some people are just right for you. ↗