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Derek Jeter

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I’m nervous for them.
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Game Myself Nervous Situation Team
It doesn’t seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener
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Home Open Season Yourself
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
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Appearance Face Hairs Myself Rules Strict
As long as I’m having fun I’m going to play.
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Fun Myself Play Sports
You have to be confident, if you’re not confident you might as well go home.
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Confidence Home Yourself
This is why you play – to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.
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Chance Opportunity Play
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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Love Myself People Wrong
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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Fun Goodness Myself People Warm
Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.
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Fun Greatness Myself Sports Watch Writing
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.
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Feeling Job Move Myself Start
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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Forget Loss Myself Score Sports Win
I’m not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
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Learning Mistake Try Perfection Yourself
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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Defense Game Headline Myself Play Win
That’s how you win – pitching and defense.
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Defense Pitch Win
I’ve hung out and dated people I’ve never even met before.
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Date Myself People
I go into every game thinking I’m going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn’t enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Game Heroes Myself Thinking
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
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Believe Hard Work Myself People Talent
It doesn’t take talent to work hard.
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Hard Talent Work
My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.
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Best Hide Myself People Vacation Warm
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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Focus Line Myself Past Present Reflection Thinking Win
When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
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Excuse Myself Teaching Young
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
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Attribution Avoid Distraction Myself Necessary Success Understand
I think when things linger, that’s when they become a distraction. I don’t want any distractions.
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Distraction Myself Thinking
Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.
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Brother Game Goodness Myself People
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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Greatness Job Person Team World Yourself
I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.
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Family Forever Myself
I can see how people work out to feel better.
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Better Exercise Feeling Myself People Work

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