Carlton Ernest Fisk Quotes

• The ’70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

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• It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.

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• It’s funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there’d be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

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• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

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• I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn’t want to miss seeing it go out.

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• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you’d ever be up there with those guys.

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• And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn’t believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it’s almost like it happened to somebody else.

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• A million years went by quick.

   

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Carlton Ernest Fisk (8)

Birth:	26th December, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Carlton Ernest Fisk is a retired Major League Baseball catcher. During a 24-year baseball career, he played for both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. He was the first player to be unanimously voted American League Rookie of the Year. Fisk is best known for "waving fair" his game-winning home run in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. At the time of his retirement in 1993, he held the record for most home runs all-time by a catcher with 351.

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