A biography for Chipper Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“People are going to respect you a lot more when you own up to the mistakes you made.”
“I don't play baseball for money; I play for love of the game.”
“Nothing but mad respect for Mike Piazza and Robin Ventura.”
“Kerry Wood had the best fastball. He threw one at my kneecaps once. I don't know how I jackknifed away. He might not have thrown 100, but it looked like it.”
“I came into quite a bit of fame and money at an early age. Quite frankly, I didn't handle it all that well.”
“If you strike out 100 times, but your strikeouts are with two outs and nobody on base, those don't bother me.”
“Guys on second, if they pick up what set of signs the catcher's using, we'll relay it one way or the other to the hitter.”
“I went through some craziness in my life. I got knocked down quite a few pegs.”
“I have no problem with hunting rifles and shotguns and pistols and what-not.”
“I've got no meniscus in the right knee.”
“Certainly, I want to be compensated fairly for what I do, but I wasn't going to hold the organization over a barrel. And I never wanted to be a player who makes so much money that we can't stay competitive on the field. That was my main concern.”
“I'm from the South and I listen to country music. I've listened to a little rap here and there.”
“I don't get the whole bobblehead phenomenon.”
“Tearing it up in A ball and tearing it up in the big leagues are completely different. For that matter, tearing it up at Double-A and tearing it up in the big leagues are completely different.”
“If I was called Larry Jones, who'd remember that?”
“My friends and my family, when I was married to my first wife, always had reservations. They really had reservations with my second wife. Neither one of my first two wives got along with my family.”
“I believe in our Constitutional right to bear arms and protect ourselves. But I do not believe there is any need for civilians to own assault rifles. I just don't.”
“I wouldn't say I was a perennial Gold Glover, but I should have won one or two by the numbers.”
“I just hate to see people look down their nose at our game when there's a very small percentage of players who are cheating.”
“I used to dread going to New York when I was younger because it was more of a hate-hate relationship.”