Dave Winfield Quotes

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• The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation…
• These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.
• Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times…
• All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our…
• I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.
• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where…
• Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced…
• I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my…
• I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
• There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what…
• And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career,…
• The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.
• You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have…
• You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn…
• And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very…
• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
• The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look…

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