"The only players that are having fun are……" — Dave Winfield
"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 that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else."
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28 Quotes by Dave Winfield
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These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents…
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Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the…
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All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we…
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I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
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Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.
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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental…
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Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born…
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I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at…
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I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
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There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the…
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And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great…
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The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a…
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More Adulation Quotes
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is…
— J. William Fulbright
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
— Unknown Author
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in…
— Lord Byron
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of…
— William James
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President…
— George Will
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it…
— Greg LeMond
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the…
— Robert Montgomery
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Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women…
— Larry L. King
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