Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Ken Griffey Jr.
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
I grew up in baseball, so I know how hard it is to not have a dad around to see sporting events and stuff like that.
I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I was just trying to get that validation from my dad. It got so bad I remember my high school coach telling him not to show up to games.
I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'
I might go 0 for 4 in a game, but I still had a chance to help the team by making plays in the field.
In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.
Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.
I had more offers in football than baseball.
A couple things I'm gonna be remembered for: the hat backwards and the swing. And the smile.
Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.
The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.
I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.
I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it.
I put up O.K. numbers - not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys - but O.K. numbers.
No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?
We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.
My brother went to Ohio State. I think Cris Carter just graduated, but Cris was there a lot. I got a chance to go up there and watch the battle between Ohio State and Michigan.
A lot of my friends and guys who I have watched and grew up with and who have been at my house are Hall of Famers, and I just know them as Ozzie Smith, Eddie Murray, Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield... I know these guys like my older brothers and uncles, the guys who took care of me.
My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.
Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn't work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms.
I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don't see how cool and exciting this game is.
That's not what I want to be known as - a guy who doesn't want to play and is moody.
My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That's what I've been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun.
Out of my 22 years, I've learned that only one team will treat you the best, and that's your first team.
My dad had a 'fro, and I didn't. So I wore his hat and it always hit me in the face, so I just turned it around and it just stuck. It wasn't like I was trying to be a tough guy or change the way that baseball is played. It was just that my dad wore a size 7 1/2, and I had a 6 1/4. It was just too big.
I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.
I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida.
You're only a first-round pick for one year.
I'd have probably gone to Michigan. Only because one of my friends, Vada Murray, who passed away, went to Michigan and as a freshman and sophomore he was my big brother at Moeller.
I'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.
I just try to keep normal days, day in and day out.
It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.
The two misconceptions of me are I didn't work hard, and that everything I made it look easy.
Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.
It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.
It's not so much what one person does. It's what we do as a team.
I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.
I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.
To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.
I guess for me, I've always lived in the moment, so I don't allow my brain to focus too far head. I'm a fly-by-the-seat kind of person, but not really.
When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.
Everyone should live where they want.
Kids always think about being the MVP.
I'm not a player who beats his own drum.
I never want to be satisfied.
I didn't start playing golf until '94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge.
The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it's on social media, commercials or the news.
Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.
I went out there and played as hard as I could because that's the only way I know how to play.
There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.
I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?
Injuries are a part of the game.
I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That's the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That's bigger than any record I'll ever set.
Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.
I get a little tired of people telling me what might have been. I think I've done OK. I don't dwell on what might have been.
I've been taking pictures at Trey's games since he was seven.
Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean that it was and you don't work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.
It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.
I won't be upset if I don't win a ring, because I gave it my all.
I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.
If baseball was all year round, I'd play all year round.
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