Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.
DEREK JETERI’m not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
More Derek Jeter Quotes
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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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Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that’s to win.
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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you’re a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
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I always take criticism as a challenge. It’s the way I’ve always looked at it.
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My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
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During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.
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I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.
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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.
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Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.
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I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
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It doesn’t take talent to work hard.
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I want to own a team one day. You know, that’s my next goal.
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It doesn’t feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I’m on an All-Star team everyday.
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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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