I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.
Source: SABR Collection.
-- Willie Mays, (May 6 1931-____), US baseball player; He maintained a .302 average and hit 654 home runs, the third highest total on record; elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1979.