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.
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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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I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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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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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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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
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Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
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Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
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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.
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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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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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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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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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I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.
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With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
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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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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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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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