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Willie Mays Quotes

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Willie Mays

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 6, 1931

Topics

Name Important Special Nation Years

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Jerome Cady

Fear Me More Afraid Anything Being

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

John Cusack

Together People Meant To Be Meant

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Meg Cabot

Love Alone Time People Spending Time

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

Ann Cleeves

Best End You Place Now Run

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

Trent Reznor

Home Music People Singing World You

In the morning, I'm juicing two apples, two carrots, two celery, two beets, two ginger. I'm drinking that every morning to try to keep the cancer away.

Roddy Piper

Morning Try Two Cancer Apples Keep

When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.

Juicy J

Music People New Know Everything Up

I've always been a songwriter.

Daya

Always Been Songwriter

I learned how to break the rules without asking.

Chris March

Rules Without Break Asking How

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

Christopher Markus

Character Lose Sight Never Our Jobs

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Augustus Hare

Life Born Say Understand Own Well

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Pete du Pont

Politics Fight Same Over Seem Move