A biography for Chipper Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“I think Atlanta and I always suited each other. It's my kind of town - laid-back, where people don't get overly excited about anything.”
“If Todd Van Poppel doesn't want to play for the Atlanta Braves, I'll be more than happy to take his place.”
“Every time I walked to the plate against Clemens I had to work. If I got to first or I came back to the bench, I was dripping sweat because it was just a grind from Pitch 1 until the end.”
“You know, 1997 and '98 really taught me how to compartmentalize. I didn't live a very peaceful life during the daytime, but from about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight, I forgot about all that. I was almost as if baseball was therapy for me.”
“When people think of the Tony Gwynns and Cal Ripkens and those players who've spent 20 years in one organization, I can be lumped in with them.”
“Maybe I wasn't the outward leader that everybody wanted me to be, but most of my teammates would tell you if they came up and asked me a question or came up and said, hey, can we go to the cage, that I'd be their guy.”
“The guys who feel unfulfilled by the previous season, they go home in the offseason and they work harder to get better and better, and they come back with a vengeance.”
“Is it easy to talk about your warts? No, it's not easy. But if you come to grips with it and paid your penance, it becomes easier to talk about.”
“Sometimes you have to make mistakes to strive to be the person you want to be.”
“Every time I walk to the plate I feel like I can dominate a game with my bat if I'm right.”
“One of the keys to hitting is keeping your head still. If you're drifting forward, 95 mph seems like 100.”
“Once you get into ownership and general managing and coaching, every little move is going to be put under a microscope. Every little move is going to be scrutinized. I just don't know if I would want to subject myself to that.”
“I want to be known as a winner, a guy that went out and did his job, was one-ninth of the equation to help us win every single day. I want to be a good husband, a good father, a good son.”
“Most guys, when their mom suggests something, roll their eyes. When my mom does, I listen.”
“I always say that I think the most perfect job in baseball is the assistant general manager because you're not the guy that's out front talking to people. You still have a voice and you still provide input, but it's more behind the scenes.”
“I have such high standards for myself and I will never settle for being a mediocre player.”
“It wasn't until I became a third baseman my rookie year in Atlanta that I made the bare-handed play very often.”
“The Braves took some flak when they made me the number one pick. There were critics.”
“A lot of people know that I'm a big outdoorsman.”