"I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series."

-- Willie Mays

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“Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.”
“Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.”
“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.”
“I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.”
“Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.”

Source : "Goldman Sachs VP explains why he quit". "60 minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. October 24, 2012.
“Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.”
“Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.”
“The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul.”

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