Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Ken Griffey Jr. - Page 2

My wife is from Seattle.

I just mind my business and do what I have to do to get ready for the baseball season.

Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see him play whenever I can.

I do like candy bars, but if I have more than a couple of them I break out.

You can't sensationalize a story that is a heartfelt story.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.

If you ask my wife, she says I play too much golf. I usually play about four times a week.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it's all the same. Just so you win.

You're on an island when you're injured. Nobody understands what you're going through. And everybody's different. Some people heal quicker than others.

I can't help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.

It's not what one person does. One person is going to get to be the star of the game. But it might have been the guy who got the guy over that's the real star of the game.

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

I want to be the best player I can be.

A franchise player, to me, is a guy like Kirby Puckett, Cal Ripken, a guy who's been in one organization through their entire career.

We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

I was able to live out my dream of playing baseball, and I've got to do the same for my kids and let them live out their dreams of whatever they want to do in life.

Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.

If I can get on base once or twice a game, steal a bag, do something, then I'm happy.

You play the game a certain way, and people think your personality off the field should be just as electrifying. That's not the case.

I like to see my name in the box score.

I mean, you're just not going to like somebody and he's not going to like you. But you're going to go out there and play. And you're going to give the other seven or eight guys on that field a chance to win. And that's just the way it's going to be.

I think I owe it to the people of Seattle, and myself, to retire as a Mariner.

That's the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.

When I came home, my kids wouldn't know if I went 0-for-4 or 4-for-4. I do not like to lose at anything, but I wouldn't be angry all day... Once I left the stadium, it was over with.

I'll never be that guy who's going to yell and scream at people.

I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

Hard work doesn't start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.