Life Quotes

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

William McNamara

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

William Mulholland

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

Willie Mays

It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

Willie Mays

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

Willie Mays

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

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Willie Mays

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

Willie Mays

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

Willie Mays

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

Willie McCovey

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Willie McCovey

Winning is a serious matter.

Willie McCovey

In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think...

Willie McCovey

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Willie McCovey

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Willie McCovey

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Will McDonough

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Will McDonough

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

Will McDonough

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

Will McDonough