- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
- Certain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020