Chili Davis Quotes

• You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it’s not the same when you’ve got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

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  Tags in Fool, Different, Playing

• You don’t get old being stupid.

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  Tags in Stupid, Old

• There are certain things I can’t do, certain pitches I can’t hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn’t what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

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• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

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  Tags in Game, Professional, Surprised

• Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.

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  Tags in Succeed, Profession, Good

• It’s good to know you’re working for someone you’re familiar with, who’s a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

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  Tags in Friend, Working

• It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don’t you? If you want to go, you go.

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  Tags in Training, Spring

• Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

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  Tags in Winning, Everything, Individual

• If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don’t think I’d still be playing.

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  Tags in Game, Playing

• I’ve got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

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  Tags in Curve, Pitches

• I’ve been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I’ve been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

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  Tags in Games, Season

• I’ve always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I’d sign the 50 kids before anything else.

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  Tags in Anything, People

• I’m at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

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  Tags in Important, Career, Winner

• I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I’ve always been able to bunt.

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  Tags in Used, Rookie

• I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That’s a huge part of the excitement for me.

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  Tags in Career, Excitement, Loved

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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  Tags in Growing, Old

• For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I’ve played.

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  Tags in Blessing, Sometimes

Chili Davis (17)

Birth:	17th January, 1960
Nationality:	Jamaican, American
Profession:	Baseball Player, Coach

About

Charles Theodore "Chili" Davis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He  is a Jamaican-American former baseball player and current coach. He is currently the hitting coach for the Boston Red Sox, a position he has held since October 2014. Davis is a former outfielder/designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball with the San Francisco Giants, California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees. In a 19-year career, Davis was a .274 hitter with 350 home runs and 1,372 RBI in 2,436 games.

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