Top 66 Ken Griffey Jr. Quotes

I’ve always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It’s never been a money situation.

It doesn’t matter how much money you make; it’s where you feel happy.

I was able to live out my dream of playing baseball, and I’ve got to do the same for my kids and let them live out their dreams of whatever they want to do in life.

I don’t like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn’t know me.

Father and son games – that was the best day. We’d be dressed at 6 o’clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o’clock at night… And we’d play at, like, 5.

A franchise player, to me, is a guy like Kirby Puckett, Cal Ripken, a guy who’s been in one organization through their entire career.

I didn’t start playing golf until ’94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge.

I want to be the best player I can be.

The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it’s on social media, commercials or the news.

Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn’t work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms.

You play the game a certain way, and people think your personality off the field should be just as electrifying. That’s not the case.

I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don’t love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you’re not watching it.

I’m very superstitious.

All my life in professional baseball, people said ‘He could be better.’

I do like candy bars, but if I have more than a couple of them I break out.

Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see him play whenever I can.

I went out there and played as hard as I could because that’s the only way I know how to play.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that’s the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it’s all the same. Just so you win.

I think I owe it to the people of Seattle, and myself, to retire as a Mariner.

I know if I do something wrong, it’s going to be all over the news.

It doesn’t bother me that I didn’t get all the recognition. It really doesn’t. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won’t.

My brother went to Ohio State. I think Cris Carter just graduated, but Cris was there a lot. I got a chance to go up there and watch the battle between Ohio State and Michigan.

Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.

My dad wasn’t a power hitter, and I didn’t think I’d be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

That’s the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.

In baseball, there’s certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

I won’t be upset if I don’t win a ring, because I gave it my all.

I get a little tired of people telling me what might have been. I think I’ve done OK. I don’t dwell on what might have been.

There’s certain people that you owe it to, for the things they’ve done for you.

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body’s not going to be the same.

Just because I made it look easy doesn’t mean that it was and you don’t work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.

You’re only a first-round pick for one year.

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy ‘White Shoes” Johnson.

I’ve been taking pictures at Trey’s games since he was seven.

I can’t help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.

Out of my 22 years, I’ve learned that only one team will treat you the best, and that’s your first team.

I just mind my business and do what I have to do to get ready for the baseball season.

My wife is from Seattle.

I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That’s the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That’s bigger than any record I’ll ever set.

We’re here for one reason, and that’s to win ballgames. You’re going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That’s just the way it is.

I’ve always been an Earnhardt family fan.

I didn’t go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.

Hard work doesn’t start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.

I don’t know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you’re sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you’re hoping you get four or five at-bats.

It’s not what one person does. One person is going to get to be the star of the game. But it might have been the guy who got the guy over that’s the real star of the game.

We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.

Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.

I mean, you’re just not going to like somebody and he’s not going to like you. But you’re going to go out there and play. And you’re going to give the other seven or eight guys on that field a chance to win. And that’s just the way it’s going to be.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I’m just Ken.

I’m lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

I don’t think it’s the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don’t see how cool and exciting this game is.

My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That’s what I’ve been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun.

You can’t sensationalize a story that is a heartfelt story.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I’m really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I’m all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don’t… I feel better when I’m by myself.

I just want to play baseball.

I just try to keep normal days, day in and day out.

I guess for me, I’ve always lived in the moment, so I don’t allow my brain to focus too far head. I’m a fly-by-the-seat kind of person, but not really.

I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I was just trying to get that validation from my dad. It got so bad I remember my high school coach telling him not to show up to games.

I know my Dad’s a National League guy. I’m an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He’s like well we got better pitchers. I’m like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You’re not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn’t going to be 1.000. So you don’t have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

Injuries are a part of the game.

I put up O.K. numbers – not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys – but O.K. numbers.

I’ve been swinging the same way since I was born. It’s always worked.