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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.

Derek Jeter

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.
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Athletics Different Health Important Opportunity Run
You have to be confident, if you’re not confident you might as well go home.
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Confidence Home Yourself
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
You can’t be sensitive, because you’re going to get criticized. I don’t care who you are, you’re going to get criticized.
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Care Criticism Myself Sensitive Yourself
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
As long as I’m having fun I’m going to play.
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Fun Myself Play Sports
Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.
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Fun Greatness Myself Sports Watch Writing
I never think about my own stats, as long as I’m contributing to the team.
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Contribution Myself Team Thinking
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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Best Goodness Honesty Interest People Surround Yourself
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
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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Position Run Yourself
I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don’t short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.
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Better Easy Hard Work Thinking
I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.
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Challenge Criticism Game Play Yourself
I like to dance and sing when there’s no one around, but, if I’m out, I’m really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
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Dance Enjoyment Music Myself Shy Sing
I’ve hung out and dated people I’ve never even met before.
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Date Myself People
Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.
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Forget Hard Work Love Yourself
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I’ll always sign for a kid before an adult.
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Adult Children Myself Possible Try
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
I always take criticism as a challenge. It’s the way I’ve always looked at it.
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Challenge Criticism Myself Way
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
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Dreams Future Heroes Yourself
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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Athlete Goodness Person Professional Yourself
The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it’s a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
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Body Difference Easy Myself Old Stay
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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Achievement Feeling Goal Goodness Hard Work Oneself
Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.
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Character Image Person Yourself
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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Big Game Win Yourself
God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
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God Hope Jersey Myself
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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Modeling Myself Parents Role Success

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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