Derek Jeter Quotations | Page 2

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

I've hung out and dated people I've never even met before.

It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.

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.

I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.

During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team.

A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.

It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

MVP, you could have picked a name out of a hat... we have a group of MVPs. You don't rely on one guy. You have to get contributions from everyone.

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.

Nine games? It's too long.

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

You have to take the good with the bad. Some players only talk to the press when they are doing good. When you're doing bad you shouldn't shy away from them and when doing good, don't run up to them.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

I always hear people say I give the same answers or I don’t give you much. No, I just don’t give you much negativity. When people are negative a lot, it starts to creep into your mind, and then you start having doubts, and I don’t like that. If there’s another way, show me. My job is to stay positive. My job is to limit distractions. And if you get annoyed by that, I don’t expect you to understand because you’re not in my shoes.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

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.

I'm not one to sit around and be satisfied about something. I can always get better.

So is work ethic. You do things over and over again, and when you get in a situation you like to think it comes natural. I think there has to be a mind-set that you’re not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to fail. I’ve done it quite a bit. The calmer you are, the more the game slows down for you, and I think part of that is controlling your emotions.

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.

It doesn't take any talent to play hard.

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

Everyone fears rejection.

This is why you play -- to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs,

This will not be Bernie Williams' last game in Yankee Stadium.

We're helpless now. There's nothing you can do. We just wait to see what happens. But we put ourselves in that position.

There are people on this team who have had great individual seasons, put up numbers, won awards, done this or that, but the bottom line is that we're trying to win. Who cares what numbers you put up, what accolades you get; you want to win. If we're going to win, we have to do the little things.

Let them keep taking shots. He had a pretty good year last year.

Oh, yeah, just because of the moment. You know, it's not the first time that I heard it. It's just I was so proud. It was just the first day back home.

Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

Nobody knows where it's going, up, down, left or right. He pitched well.

On the field everybody needs to be on the same page, that's the only thing I concern myself with. You're not here to put up stats. You're here to win.

I was available to play yesterday. He wanted me to have the day off.

I wouldn't change it for the world. Have there ever been days where I wished I was this or I wished I was that? ... No, It's always been a positive.

I don't have to sell Rocket on playing in New York. He's had success here and he enjoyed his time here.

I don't know, why shoot for second place? We're still in the race for the AL East and that's what our approach is, winning the division. You talk about us getting to the playoffs, but we're in the playoffs now.

Baseball in the past has taken a back seat to some of the other sports in terms of expansion. This is a huge step. You've got the players' association and the owners coming together on this. I think it's a great idea. People have questioned the timing of it, but when you think about it, when else are you going to have it?

I didn't have any idea. I didn't sit down and read the whole rulebook before I came here.

From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't come back to haunt you, but looking at it now we wished we could have gotten a couple more runs there. But he made good pitches and he got out of the inning and then we had opportunities later in the game and didn't do anything with it.

From what I understand he never mentioned my name. My name was brought into it, but it never came out of his mouth.

I enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone who had the chance to play. It was a good experience besides the results.

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

He has nasty stuff. He was throwing inside and made me go to right. I guess I was due.

He has been big. Today was as wild as he has been, and he still found a way. He gives us an opportunity to win every time he goes out on the mound.

He has his own feelings. You've got to understand his feelings. He's the owner of the team. He doesn't want anybody to get hurt. He's entitled to his opinion. He's the boss. He's always had his own opinion and he always will.

He did a great job. He just kind of teased the strike zone, throwing borderline pitches and making you chase them. It shows you that if you have good pitching, it stops good hitting.

He doesn't know what the crowd is going to do in Boston. He does not know.

He got into trouble early on but he pitched out. That's exactly what we needed.

He never throws the ball straight, ... He just has nasty stuff, especially when he faces me.

He needed an oxygen tank there. It was kind of funny to watch.

When he's healthy, he's as good as any pitcher in baseball.

We've faced him 100 times playing with Baltimore. He's always been pretty tough. He knows how to pitch. He mixes it up.

Good for him. Now he has the chance to be remembered for something other than just catching a home run.

He seems not to be bothered by anything, and that will help him here. Obviously he's a great player. But he's not going to have any trouble adjusting to New York after being in Boston.

He's got that demeanor where he's just having fun, it seems like. Sort of like Soriano a little bit in that sense. He's always smiling, having a good time. He doesn't seem to be affected.

He's as tough as any pitcher in baseball. We tried to score early and Robby had the big hit.

He's been pitching well. Today, he scuffled more than he has in the past. He battled us out of a couple of jams.

He's been pitching well, ... Today, he scuffled more than he has in the past. He battled us out of a couple of jams.

He's been huge. I think the thing with Chacon is he's not intimidated by anything, ... It seems like he has all the confidence in the world.

He's been doing it every time out. We missed him when he was out, and now he's healthy and he's picking up where he left off.

He's done it for us before. He pitched well. He pitched well for us. He didn't do it as consistently as he probably would have liked to, but he's got great stuff and he mixes it up.

Well, you don't have to look at the scoreboard anymore.

We made mistakes. That's what cost us a couple of runs.

He was hot and it came at the right time.

He was running around the bases so much, maybe he should be a leadoff hitter.

He can play. He has an approach, and he sticks to it. He can pretty much do it all.

It all starts with pitching. This offense got so much publicity early on, but you're going to win if you pitch. We've got a lot of guys who know how to pitch.

I thought he battled. He lost some control in that one inning but kept us in the game. We had our opportunities to score but we couldn't come up with that big hit.

I thought Chase's ball was gone when he hit it. I mean, he crushed that ball, but you've got to hit it pretty good to get it out in that part of the park.

I thought Chase's ball was gone when he hit it.

I think it was a wake-up call for people. I don't think a lot of people were aware of the rules. At this point, you have to play well every day. They're short series. In a short little round, there are only three games. You have to treat every game like it's a big one.

I think it's what a lot of people expected at the beginning of the season, us and Boston back in the playoffs.

It goes without saying how special a player he is, what he represents in the game. So it was an honor for me that he wanted to take a picture. He wanted to take a picture with me? It was definitely a good feeling.

It is like the postseason. I think that's the approach everyone is going to take. You want to win. It's a tournament. You want to represent your country.

Just because you've seen a guy doesn't mean you're going to get hits off him the next time. He seemed to bear down when guys got on base, and when he got ahead, he threw that split.

I think everyone in the ballpark thought that ball was out. I few feet over, and we have the lead.

People are entitled to their opinion, He makes the most money, a lot of people are probably jealous of him. I don't really know. I haven't thought about it and we don't really concern ourselves with it.