"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."More Willie Mays quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Willie Mays quotes [07/22/2011 06:07:10]

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.More Willie Mays quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.More Willie Mays quotes [07/22/2011 06:07:00]

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should haveMore Willie Mays quotes [07/22/2011 06:07:18]