Ken Griffey Jr.

“It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“It's not so much what one person does. It's what we do as a team.”

“I won't be upset if I don't win a ring, because I gave it my all.”

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

“I want to be the best player I can be.”

“I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.”

“Kids always think about being the MVP.”

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

“I went out there and played as hard as I could because that's the only way I know how to play.”

“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.”