Derek Jeter Quotes About Winning
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My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
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If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
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I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.
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You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.
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I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
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I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.
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Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.
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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.
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Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.
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We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
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A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.
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Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.
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If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
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I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
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Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.
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That's how you win - pitching and defense.
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You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
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You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
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God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
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Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
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You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.
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Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.
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When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
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I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
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My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
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When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
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You know, what is team chemistry? My opinion is when you have enough people who care about winning and enough people who losing affects. That's what chemistry means to me. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, but you're going to have enough people on the same page. It's almost impossible, I think, to get everyone on the same page, but it's gotta mean something to you.
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