Quote by Willie Mays
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most t

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

Other quotes by Willie Mays

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. – Willie Mays

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Sports
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Thats how easy baseball was for me. Im not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. – Willie Mays

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Knowledge
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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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As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. – Morgan Freeman

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Well, I think that theres a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, youre likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. – Richard Branson

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Business

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the areas workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in todays global economy. – Rod Blagojevich

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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. – Stendhal

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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. – Howard W. Newton

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Id learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little. – Rick Pitino

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