A biography for Chipper Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“Life is too good away from the game, I enjoy being at home.”
“I played a kid's game and I've got people walking up and saying thank you for entertaining us for two decades.”
“I wouldn't have wanted to play anywhere else but for Braves Country.”
“I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.”
“My first year on varsity opened up more doors for me than I ever imagined. During my eighth-grade season, scouts came to see some of my older teammates and got a glimpse of me in the process.”
“Golf is a great substitute for satisfying some of those competitive juices, and you can't play baseball for as long as I did and just shut it off. You've got to have an outlet or else I'd probably shrivel up and... I don't know.”
“Our society is a forgiving one.”
“There's nothing more gratifying than someone coming up and saying you influenced an entire region of the United States.”
“Once I got to the big leagues, Dad saw every one of my 10,000 or so plate appearances. By the time I called him after a game, not only had he seen my at bats, but he'd also watched replays of them and already had some suggestions.”
“I took great pride in not letting guys bunt on me. If you're going to get on base, you're going to have to hit it by me.”
“When I'm out there between the lines, I'm focused and ready to go.”
“People ask me all the time, 'What was it like to face Mariano Rivera?' And, the only thing I can think of to say is imagine somebody throwing 95 mile an hour chainsaws at you.”
“I really respected the New York teams and the city of New York and some of the things that they themselves went through during my playing days.”
“When I was seven or eight, I was bailing out on everything inside. My father's pitching to me in the backyard. He says,'I promise; I'm not gonna hit you.' And then he goes and hits me right in the mouth. It was with a tennis ball, but it still knocked out a front tooth. Blood was everywhere. But I survived it.”
“Momentum can turn on one bad pitch, one bad hop, one bad play.”
“I think running the bases is a controlled run, because you have to time your steps to hit each bag. In the outfield, the ball dictates how hard, how fast, you go. And sometimes that's full bore.”
“I think I could don a baseball uniform and play with anybody who ever played the game and be successful. That's just me saying, 'I'm a baseball player.' And, gosh darn it, if I have to make adjustments, I'm going to make adjustments in order to be successful.”
“Going into the Hall of Fame is going to be the biggest present I could ever give my parents.”
“There are a lot of times I'd much rather be at third base than left field. It's a little boring out there at times, a little harder to get into the flow of the game.”
“My knees are shot, man.”