Top 15 Nomar Garciaparra Quotes

#1. People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes.

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#2. People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

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#3. It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

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#4. All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

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#5. People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

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#6. That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

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#7. I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

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#8. You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

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#9. If it was in my control, Id still be wearing a Red Sox uniform, because its the place I know, I love. All of those fans, Ill always remember. But Im also going to another great place. Im going to a phenomenal city with great tradition as well, phenomenal fans, great organization.

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#10. One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

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#11. When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

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#12. Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

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#13. You can't hit without your hands.

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#14. My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

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#15. I love the game of baseball.

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