Quotes & Sayings About Jeter

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. — Derek Jeter

I want to have a family. — Derek Jeter

If you are connected you're fucked. — K.W. Jeter

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief. — Sena Jeter Naslund

It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair. — K.W. Jeter

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone. — Michael Jeter

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually! — Aaron Boone

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling. — Derek Jeter

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back. — Derek Jeter

It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday. — Derek Jeter

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science. — K.W. Jeter

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them. — Derek Jeter

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem. — Derek Jeter

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible. — Derek Jeter

My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball. — Derek Jeter

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them. — Derek Jeter

A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win. — Derek Jeter

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape. — Derek Jeter

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years. — Derek Jeter

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series. — Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong. — Derek Jeter

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold. — Derek Jeter

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there. — Derek Jeter

Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division. — Derek Jeter

I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees.. — Gordon Beckham

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more. — Derek Jeter

Every body has a tickle spot, somtimes you just have to find it. — Derek Jeter

It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly treated. The warm fire, by which he sleeps even now, and the fattening dish will be his rewards to the end of his days. — K.W. Jeter

No former player has owned a team in baseball. — Derek Jeter

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. — Derek Jeter

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever. — Derek Jeter

I'm not one to sit around and be satisfied about something. I can always get better. — Derek Jeter

Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?"
I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. "I have no faith at all," I said, "but sometimes I have hope."
I rather think," she replied, "that total annihilation is the most comfortable position."
I was shaken. The horse clopped on. The children laughed behind us.
When I die," she said, "I don't expect to see any of my loved ones again. I'll just become a part of all this." She waved her hand at the surrounding countryside. "That's all right with me. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire ... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever. — K.W. Jeter

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. — Derek Jeter

the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!" This was in New York City. In a room full of Jewish sports fans. I don't even really like baseball that much! I have problems. — Mindy Kaling

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. — Sena Jeter Naslund

It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality! — Michael Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better. — Derek Jeter

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home. — Derek Jeter

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. — Derek Jeter

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me. — Derek Jeter

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. — Derek Jeter

You are my Easter. — Sena Jeter Naslund

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about. — Derek Jeter

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward. — Derek Jeter

admiration was closed to love. — Sena Jeter Naslund

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. — Sena Jeter Naslund

It doesn't take any talent to play hard. — Derek Jeter

Kids are our future. — Derek Jeter

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees. — Derek Jeter

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you. — Derek Jeter

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder. — Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection. — Derek Jeter

I don't really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses. — Derek Jeter

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun. — Derek Jeter

That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again ... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul. — Sena Jeter Naslund

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer. — Derek Jeter

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me! — Derek Jeter

As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play. — Derek Jeter

She felt as if she were being sucked dry by little vampires. End up like one of those pruney leather guys you see scuttling around downtown, she thought. That's part of the price you pay for coming to work in L.A. - The Glass Hammer — Jeter K. W.

Do you think yourself a string too short to save? Do you think that you are lank and straight, a linear bit with no connection fore or aft? Fear not your insignificance. Nature has a drawer for you. Yes, nature garners all the string too short to save, and mice visit that drawer. Here's nesting material! Yes, you will be interwoven, be it now or later. — Sena Jeter Naslund

I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times. — K.W. Jeter

What is the future going to be like, then?'
'Hey, it's gonna be a gas,' Scape assured me. 'If you're into machines and stuff - like I am - you'd go for it. People are gonna have all kinds of shit. Do whatever they want with it. That's why it didn't faze me when ol' Bendray first told me about wanting to blow up the world. Hey - in the Future, everybody will want to! — K.W. Jeter

Jeter's work ethic, kneaded into the dough and manifesting itself in the leavening of his metric loaf, has already nourished the dossier with which his contracts are negotiated. — Lonnie Wheeler

Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him. — Joe Girardi

I can see how people work out to feel better. — Derek Jeter

(Describing a whale killed during Una's maiden voyage) ... He was nearly twice the size of my sixty-barrel whale. Could the animal really be stowed below as small casks of oil? At your own death, I asked myself, can the vastness of your own experience be buried in the ground, funneled into nothing but the shape of a grave? — Sena Jeter Naslund

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models. — Derek Jeter

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team. — George Steinbrenner

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. — Derek Jeter

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
— Sena Jeter Naslund

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within. — Sena Jeter Naslund

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition. — Joe Torre

Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them. — Derek Jeter

Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of. — Derek Jeter

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad. — Derek Jeter

Perhaps Vulnerability was a land that, for some people, could never be entirely traversed. — Sena Jeter Naslund

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. — Derek Jeter

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean. — Derek Jeter

Nine games? It's too long. — Derek Jeter

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? — Sena Jeter Naslund

The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair. — Derek Jeter

It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory. — Sena Jeter Naslund

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present. — Derek Jeter

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter. — Bud Selig

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now. — Tom Brady

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule. — Derek Jeter

Americans are artisans in freedom. — Derrick G. Jeter

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. — Derek Jeter

The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up. — George Steinbrenner

I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset.
"Let's cook," Frannie said energetically. "We will smell so good that they'll all come running." She picked up a bowl, filled it with apples from the barrel, and immediately began to cut them up. I put water to boil, got out cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lard, flour, sugar, salt, saleratus, vinegar, and all the other things for apple pies. We both laughed happily. How easy it is, we thought, to make a decision, to implement a remedy, to act. — Sena Jeter Naslund

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it. — Derek Jeter

I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that's the feeling I've always had. — Derek Jeter

This is why you play
to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs, — Derek Jeter

Her eys were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue. — Sena Jeter Naslund

The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you. — Derek Jeter