Willie Mays

Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays, Jr., nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former Major League Baseballcenter fielder who spent almost all of his 22 season career playing for the New York and San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 May 1931
CountryUnited States of America
argument barry people
If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No. 2.
american-athlete bought everybody gave giants parking signed
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.
advantage baseball road
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.
baseball ems compare
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
life people helping
Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
inspirational sports game-day
What's tough is being good every day.
baseball being-yourself player
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
games walking-away trying
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
sports years guy
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports
hurt blessed body
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
sports good-life play
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.
baseball keys defense
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball
baseball years games
I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game
play balls born
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.