Willie Mays is an old man.

威利·梅斯年纪大了。

Yeah, but you can still beat Willie Mays.

但你还是能击败威利·梅斯。

When I was a kid, I greatly admired Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra.

当我是个孩子时，我非常崇拜威利? 梅斯、汉克? 阿龙、约吉? 贝拉。

So there were limits, but Willie Mays insists the circumstances didn't fill him with anger.

所以有限制，但威利·梅斯坚持认为，种族隔离的情况并没有让他充满愤怒。

ALICE WINKLER: That's Willie Mays, baseball legend, speaking to the Academy of Achievement in 1996.

这就是威利·梅斯，一位棒球传奇人物，于1996年与美国成就学会的对话。

Willie Mays's mother was a great athlete, too, a track star, so Mays admits he was born with an overdose of athletic prowess.

威利·梅斯的母亲也是一位伟大的运动员，还是一位田径明星，所以梅斯承认他天生就有超强的运动能力。

ALICE WINKLER: After a lifetime of hits and runs and defensive plays, what did Willie Mays say was the greatest challenge of his career?

在经历了一生的击球、跑动和防守之后，威利·梅斯说他职业生涯中最大的挑战是什么？

Some of these players became the very best players in the game, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Satchel Paige.

其中一些球员成为了比赛中最优秀的球员，包括威利·梅斯、汉克·亚伦和萨切尔·佩奇。

They had to send for — when they called me, and I was in a movie, and it came across the screen and said, " Willie Mays, report to the box office."

当他们打电话给我的时候，我在一部影片中露了脸，屏幕上显示，“威利·梅斯，向票房报到了。”

Willie Mays told the Academy of Achievement in this interview about the earliest days when he was signed to a minor league team where he was the only African American player.

威利·梅斯在接受美国成就学会的采访时，谈到了他最早签约到一个小联盟球队的日子，那时他是那里唯一的非洲裔美国球员。

Now some might argue that Willie Mays, the subject of today's episode, actually comes as close to being a superhero as any human, but in this 1996 interview, Mays said no.

现在有些人可能会说，今天这一期的主题人物，威利·梅斯，实际上是最接近超级英雄的人，但是在 1996 年的采访中，梅斯说不是。

Actually, that's not exactly what he said, but close enough, and it's odd because Willie Mays has always been pretty universally thought of as a very nice guy, and he for sure never finished last.

事实上，他并不是这么说的，但也差不太多，这很奇怪，因为威利·梅斯一直被公认为是一个非常优秀的人，他肯定从来不是最后成功的那一个。