Dave Winfield Quotes

• You know, many of you kids can’t relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen.

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• You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

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• You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

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• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

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• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

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• To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

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• These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.

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• There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn’t in the cards. I didn’t know what it was going to take to get here.

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• There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

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• The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

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• The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

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• The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

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• People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn’t like that.

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• Now it’s on to May, and you know about me and May.

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• Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

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• I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

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• I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

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• I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

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• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Topics in Success

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• But I’ll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

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Dave Winfield (23)

Birth:	3rd October, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

David Mark "Dave" Winfield was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder. He is a 12-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams.

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