Quotes by Gary Sheffield - Page 1

I trust no one totally.
Gary Sheffield /
Trust
Totally
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield /
Jail
Figured
Proving
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Owners
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
Gary Sheffield /
Acknowledged
Time God Always
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
Gary Sheffield /
Count
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Peaceful
Cloth
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Latin
Equally
Sent
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Meetings
Unfair
Everybody Else
Joe
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
Gary Sheffield /
Goodbye
Mets
Wait
Rush
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Impact
Frequently
No Interest
Steroids
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I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
Gary Sheffield /
Baseball
Yankees
Life Family Business
Everything Else
Strictly
Secondary
Teams
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Calm
Luther
Feed
Fed
Malcolm
Martin Luther King
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Yankees
Functions
Plane
Teams
Wives
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
Gary Sheffield /
Debate
Fame
Standpoint
I Am Me Will
Belong
Check
Me I Am Will
Hall
Mentioned
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
Gary Sheffield /
Old School
Baseball
Buying
Earning
Grandfather
Hard Way
Raised
Taught
Train
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Approach
Chances
Me Win Way
Route
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Include
Regardless
Searching
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
Gary Sheffield /
Bed
Setting
Good Example
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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?
Gary Sheffield /
Gary
Money Me Nothing
Send
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
Gary Sheffield /
Attendance
Baseball
Blind
Eye
Home Run
Mania
Owners
Understood
Accidental
Blind Eye
Meant
Runs
Spike
Sudden
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Good Man
Good Man Me
Certain Way
Joe
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
Gary Sheffield /
Issue
Poster
Poster Child
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Academy
Baseball
Bottom
Bottom Line
League
Major League
Major League Baseball
Neighborhood
Other Countries
Red
Wonder
Countries
Flag
Major
Obviously
Putting
Throws
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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.
Gary Sheffield /
Gary
Not Perfect
Path
Saved
Cleaned
Emotions
God-Like
Showing
They Say
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