Willie Mays Quotes

I was born to play baseball.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

The team with the best players wins.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.

The easy part, for me, is always playing my football.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Baseball is not a grind for me.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.