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

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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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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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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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Although my family – parents and sister – all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on. – Michael Sheen

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

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Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. – Richard Pratt

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We dont seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? – Will Rogers

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