Quotes By Willie Stargell

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

I love September, especially when we're in it.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

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.

Never was I booed.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.