Dave Winfield

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we…

— Dave Winfield

Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a…

— Dave Winfield

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in…

— Dave Winfield

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have…

— Dave Winfield

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul.…

— Dave Winfield

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

— Dave Winfield

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the…

— Dave Winfield

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

— Dave Winfield

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

— Dave Winfield

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

— Dave Winfield

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like…

— Dave Winfield

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

— Dave Winfield

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time,…

— Dave Winfield

I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

— Dave Winfield

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

— Dave Winfield

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to…

— Dave Winfield

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

— Dave Winfield

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

— Dave Winfield

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I…

— Dave Winfield

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

— Dave Winfield

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your…

— Dave Winfield

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The…

— Dave Winfield

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking…

— Dave Winfield

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred…

— Dave Winfield

I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate.…

— Dave Winfield