Eric Davis Quotes

• It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I’d rather spend my energy smiling.

  Eric Davis

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• If you’re feeling pressure, then you shouldn’t be here.

  Eric Davis

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• If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way.

  Eric Davis

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• I’ve been operated on 13 times.

  Eric Davis

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• I’ve been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I’m going to be the next this or that. It’s tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Tough, Young, Player

• I’m not head-strong, and I’m not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won’t be trying to be play everyday. There’s only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn’t necessarily good for Eric Davis.

  Eric Davis

• I’m no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I’m part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Professional, Baseball

• I’m having a good time. I’m going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Good, Time, Game

• I’m being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Self, Comparison, Impossible

• I’ll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles’ organization, and that’s good.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Forever, Questions, Organization

• I’d never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn’t even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That’s what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, ‘When are we going to get this thing out?’

  Eric Davis

• I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Cancer, Patients

• I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn’t forget how to play while I was recovering. I don’t know if the cancer is gone for good. I don’t think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I’m able to play baseball.

  Eric Davis

• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I’ve always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

• I was disappointed in everything – my start and the team’s start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

  Eric Davis

• I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

  Eric Davis

• I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

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  Tags in Myself, Established

• I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn’t cry. Why would we cry? You didn’t get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

  Eric Davis

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Self, Remember

• I love the game, it’s the greatest game on earth, that’s why I can’t understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That’s the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Greatest, Game, Earth

• I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what’s wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.

  Eric Davis

Eric Davis (50)

Birth:	29th May, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Eric Keith Davis was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a former center fielder for several Major League Baseball teams. He was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on May 19, 1984 with the Cincinnati Reds, the team for which he is most remembered. Blessed with a rare combination of excellent foot speed and bat speed, he became the first major league player to hit at least 30 home runs and steal at least 50 bases in the same season in 1987. A series of injuries derailed his career as he moved to the Dodgers and then the Tigers, and he retired in 1994. In 1996, Davis successfully restarted his baseball career with the Reds and was named the comeback player of the year.

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