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## Video: Willie Mays on Air Force One

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_Published 2009-07-15. Chats with reporters ahead of the All-Star game_


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## Transcript

>> See if the other side--

>> Oh yeah.

>> Hey Willie, what was it like to go up against Sandy Koufax?

>> Well, it's like stripping. You go [ unk ] to go to. You gonna get great great pitches off him.

>> Robert [ unk ]

>> We got five homeruns in 20 years. And today is something [ unk ].

>> Yeah. -[ unk ]

>> Koufax.

>> No no no no no.

>> I had to know [ unk ] sir, I'm sorry.

>> Did the president ask you to sign a baseball?

>> Who?

>> The president?

>> He got it.

>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got it.

>> Today? Or before when you first met him?

>> I met him quite a while ago.

>> Did you sign it for him then?

>> Well yeah, and [ unk ].

>> I got my hooks out in the left [ unk ]. I'm a cubs fan and all their greatest games.

>> Oh.

>> How much? Are you sure?

>> Very much. -[ unk ]

>> Talking about it sir?

>> Oh no, how many of them [ unk ] to Chicago and I'm from out of here. I dreamed about this day. [ unk ] I dreamed about it [ unk ] in my ways [ unk ] not knowing that, you know, [ unk ] I dream about it and then I fly most of the night in Chicago. Then in Chicago [ unk ] -[ unk ]

>> Yeah. I stayed up all night and sleeping at seven, maybe eight o'clock in the morning. So proud. So that tells me all the things I went through, I just love the things [ unk ]. I'm just proud of him. He may be proud of, you know, something else. But I'm proud of him [ unk ].

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