Eric Davis Quotes

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It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Eric Davis

Smile, Keep Smiling, Energy

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Eric Davis

Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

Eric Davis

Games, Lasts, Good Times

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I'm a firm believer that where there's a will, there's a way.

Eric Davis

Strong, Fall, Believe

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

Eric Davis

Thinking, People, Worry

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

Eric Davis

Baseball, Cancer, Thinking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Eric Davis

Feelings, Pressure, Ifs

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

Eric Davis

Spiritual, Godly, Blessing

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I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Eric Davis

Games, Play, Fields

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

Eric Davis

Revenge, Play, Momentum

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Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

Eric Davis

Giving Up, Worry, Doe

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

Eric Davis

Girl, Baseball, Cancer

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Eric Davis

Player, Thinking, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

Eric Davis

Play, People, Peers

Interview with Ralph Wiley, www.espn.com. May 25, 1987.

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I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

Eric Davis

Strong, Play, Everyday

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Life is too short to worry about anything

Eric Davis

Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

Eric Davis

Jobs, Spring, Real

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

Eric Davis

Positive, Player, Organization

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

Eric Davis

Cancer, People, World

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

Eric Davis

Thinking, People, Feelings

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Eric Davis

Way, Mark, Protect

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

Eric Davis

Swings, People, Bats

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

Eric Davis

Team, Player, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Eric Davis

Games, Names, Doe

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

Eric Davis

Children, Kids, Years

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Born: May 29, 1962
Occupation: Baseball player
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