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 have.
Willie Mays

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
Willie Mays

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.
Willie Mays

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.
Willie Mays

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
Willie Mays

Baseball is a team game.
Eddie Murray

There is but one game and that game is baseball.
John McGraw

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
George Steinbrenner

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
George Steinbrenner

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
George Steinbrenner

I always get very calm with baseball.
Paul Simon

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Muddy Waters

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
John Lee Hooker

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
George Herman

Baseball wasn't easy for me.
Ryne Sandberg

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Lee

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
Bill Lee

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Bill Lee