I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
DEREK JETERYour image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.
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If I put my name on something, I’m going to be involved. I’m not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.
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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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My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
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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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Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.
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I never think about my own stats, as long as I’m contributing to the team.
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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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I’m not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
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It doesn’t take any talent to play hard.
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I want to own a team one day. You know, that’s my next goal.
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So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it’s easy to say, ‘Ah, I’ll workout tomorrow.’ But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.
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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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The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
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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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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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