Jorge Posada Quotes

#1. He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit
my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm
living his dream.

Jorge Posada

#2. He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

Jorge Posada

#3. When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

Mason Cooley

#4. My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

Jorge Posada

#5. When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

Jorge Posada

#6. Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.

Ian Warner

#7. Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

Jorge Posada

#8. I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

Jorge Posada

#9. If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or
three days.

Jorge Posada

#10. I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't
get in (anybody's) way.

Jorge Posada

#11. I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

Jorge Posada

#12. The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

Jorge Posada

#13. I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

Jorge Posada

#14. Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Todd Gitlin

#15. Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I
remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his
teammates, and that really caught my eye.

Jorge Posada

#16. I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

Jorge Posada

#17. I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

Jorge Posada

#18. The number one reason that we don't get our needs met, we don't express them. We express judgments. If we do express needs, the number two reasons we don't our needs met, we don't make clear requests.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#19. Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Jorge Posada

#20. He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit.

Jorge Posada

#21. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada

#22. I love to dream of a future, filled with peace, love, joy, and laughter.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

Jorge Posada

#24. What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

Jorge Posada

#25. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

E. M. Forster

#26. I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.

Jorge Posada

#27. My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

Jorge Posada

#28. You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Jorge Posada

#29. I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

Jorge Posada

#30. You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

Jorge Posada

#31. It's good to see a kid that
young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Jorge Posada

#32. Complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way is a good way to describe it. But maybe that's just how love is.

Gayle Forman

#33. Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Jorge Posada

#34. John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

Jorge Posada

#35. I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

Jorge Posada

#36. Helen's words had hit Quentin like a weed whacker stuck down the front of his underwear and turned on high. And not the wimpy electric models, but the four-stroke gas engine that produce enough RPMs to turn his junk into noodle soup and effectively emasculate him. Fortunately it was metaphorical.

Jay Barry