Chili Davis Quotes

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• Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
• I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.
• For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.
• I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.
• I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge…
• I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them…
• I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and…
• I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.
• It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
• You don't get old being stupid.
• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so…
• There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can…
• You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his…
• Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad.…
• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
• I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different…

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