Quotes from Willie Stargell

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

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

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

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

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

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

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

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

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

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

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

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

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

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

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

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

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 was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

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