44 Quotes by Willie Stargell
- When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
- To be successful, one must take chances.
- To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
- Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
- Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
- Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
- We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
- You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.
- They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.
- We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.
- I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
- I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
- I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
- I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
- I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
- I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
- I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.
- Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
- I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.
- I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
- I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.
- I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.
- I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
- Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
- A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.
- I love September, especially when we're in it.
- Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
- The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
- The bat is gone, but the smile remains.
- That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
- Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
- Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
- Never was I booed.
- I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
- I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
- Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
- It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
- If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
- I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
- I've always been a slave to my heart.
- I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.
- I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
- There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
- Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.
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