Words matter. These are the best Gary Sheffield Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let’s see what I ask for. I won’t ask for nothing. I’ll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
Regardless of what you’re searching, you ain’t gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain’t going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about… I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I’m wrong, then show me.
I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn’t live by those laws.
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren’t treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he’s a good man, he’s this, he’s that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that’s you. It’s one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don’t feel what other people feel.
I tell myself every offseason I’m not going to say anything crazy. I’m just going to have a peaceful season… Can’t do it. I’m cut from a different cloth.
When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I’m going to win. And I’ll do it by any means necessary. If you’re not willing to go that route, don’t come my way.
I had no interest in steroids. I didn’t need them, and I didn’t want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I’ve frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
The rage was in me, and if it wasn’t for the rage, then I wouldn’t know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can’t. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don’t know what half the wives look like.
I trust no one totally.
The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don’t have to pay you if they don’t want to.
This is what people don’t understand. When they might see me do something that’s not ‘God-like,’ then they say, ‘Well, I thought you were saved?’ I am saved. I’m not perfect. I have emotions still. My name’s still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I’m showing you my path.
If you’re equally good as this Latin player, guess who’s going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
