The best Quotes by Willie Mays

The best Quotes by Willie Mays

Willie Howard Mays Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Regarded as one of the greatest players ever, Mays ranks second behind only Babe Ruth on most all-time lists, including those of The Sporting News and ESPN. Mays played in the National League (NL) between 1951 and 1973 for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.

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

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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.

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

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Jackie Robinson

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

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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.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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Giving Up Motivation

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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Fear Motivation

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

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Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

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San Francisco Pizza Hawaii

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

Tua Tagovailoa

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Alabama Mississippi Louisiana

Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Alabama Chicken & Roosters

Alabama girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Alabama.

The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.

Devlin Hodges

If you miss the playoffs in four out of the last five seasons, you're not going in the right direction.

Jerry Reese (as General Manager at New York Giants) - October 2013

New York Giants

You can't spell "elite" without E-L-I.

Eli Manning New York Giants

The G-MEN play best with their backs against the wall.

New York Giants

In Reese We Trust.

New York Giants Jerry Reese

There's a lot of people who know how to do my job, but I can do a lot of things better and I will do things better, just like our coaches can do things better, and I believe they will do things better. Our players can do things better, and I believe they will do things better.

Jerry Reese (as General Manager at New York Giants) - October 2013

New York Giants

The G-Men won a couple of nail biters, including a victory over the Packers in London that was as shocking to me as it must have been to Aaron Rodgers. I had almost forgotten how good it feels to win.

George R. R. Martin - October 2022

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Aaron Rodgers New York Giants

Wellington Mara always said: "Once a Giant, always a Giant." For me, it's only a Giant.

Eli Manning - January 2020

New York Giants

New York! Home of the Mets, the Chrysler Building, those ladies from Sex and the City and now, the zombie apocalypse. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - but first, you have to not get eaten.

Spider-Man in What If…? - Season 1 Episode 4

Sex And The City New York Mets

Barney: "I am not a smoker. I only smoke in certain situations: Post-coital, when I'm with Germans, sometimes those two overlap, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day the Mets are mathematically eliminated every year, and of course - wait for it - 'cause lord knows I have, pregnancy scares."
Ted: "Why are you smoking right now?"
Barney: "I'm always pre-coital, Ted."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 11

Smoking New York Mets

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Jackie Robinson

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Jackie Robinson

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

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