American - Athlete | March 6, 1940 - April 9, 2001
I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
Willie Stargell
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Helping someone is what life is all about.
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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
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You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
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The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
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To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
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I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
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