Quote by Willie Mays
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldnt 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

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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. – Willie Mays

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Business
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two oclock 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

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Sports
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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 dont have a good life. – Willie Mays

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I know I will die in a car crash. – Katie Price

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Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your countrys. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap. – James Hansen

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car

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. – James Norman Hall

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I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries. – Grover Norquist

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Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. – Placido Domingo

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Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone elses. – Betty White

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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities. – Clay Aiken

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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. – Edward R. Murrow

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