Willie Mays Quotes

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching. - Willie Mays

You can't leave Mickey (Mantle) off. Mickey would have to be in there. - Willie Mays

Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me. - Willie Mays

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. - Willie Mays

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. - Willie Mays

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

We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 innings sometimes. The All-Star Game was important to us. We weren't worried about setting records. We were worried about winning. - Willie Mays

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. - Willie Mays

The home-field advantage in baseball, to me, I don't understand. I had to play as well on the road as I did at home. - Willie Mays

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

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