Ken Griffey Jr. Quotes, Thoughts and images

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

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

The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.

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

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

You're only a first-round pick for one year.

I just try to keep normal days, day in and day out.

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.

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

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

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.

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

Everyone should live where they want.

That's not what I want to be known as - a guy who doesn't want to play and is moody.

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

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

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

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

I never want to be satisfied.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.

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

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

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.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

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