"The bat is gone, but the smile remains."
-Willie Stargell
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"I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.“
-Willie Stargell
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"There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street."
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
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"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."
-Willie Stargell
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"That's where the future lies, in the youth of today."
-Willie Stargell
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"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."
-Willie Stargell
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"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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