Jeter Quotes

• Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Rapper, Order

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

  Tom Brady

  Boston, Long, Right Now

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

  Hal Duncan

  Fiction, Yeats, Strange

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• The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.

  George Steinbrenner

  Men, Names, Guy

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• I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.

  Gordon Beckham

  Yankees, White, Want

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Differences, Mirrors

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) want to kill each other. I think we both drive each other and motivate each other. But, when we're off the field, we're like family. I think the nice thing about it is we became good friends before we even mad it to the big leagues. That makes it more of a healthy relationship.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Nice, Good Friend, Thinking

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• I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

  Joe Torre

  Eye, People, Competition

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• I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.

  Jim Boeheim

  Farewell

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• Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Book, Fire, Tears

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• He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

  George Steinbrenner

  Team, Yankees, Want

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• Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

  Aaron Boone

  Yankees, Ghost, Shows

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• I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.

  Jim Bowden

  Player, Errors, Hands

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• People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  People, Compare, Can Do

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• Jeter is a six-tool player...I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too.

  Johnny Oates

  Player, Six, Tools

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• Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him.

  Joe Girardi

  Team, Real, Player

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• How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Past, Two

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• I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my career with 3,110 hits, and I have only admiration and respect for Derek. I hope he pauses to admire the view and keeps going. Just one more achievement in an incredible career.

  Dave Winfield

  Views, Play, Careers

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