Ken Griffey Quotes

#1. The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.

Tony La Russa

#2. I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Eric Davis

#3. If Jones magically converted 50 outs a year into walks, presto: now he's Ken Griffey, Jr.

Baseball Prospectus

#4. My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#5. No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things.

Curtis Granderson

#6. He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.

Chili Davis

#7. Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

Johnny Bench

#8. Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,
And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike,
Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

LL Cool J

#9. To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#10. Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

Justin Vernon

#11. I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#12. Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

Paul Schrader

#14. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#15. Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out?

Ken Griffey Jr.

#16. Its a game, and that's how I am going to treat it.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#17. In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

Euripides

#18. My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#19. Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

Ken Griffey Jr.

#20. They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.

Ayn Rand

#21. I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.

Elizabeth Berkley

#22. At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

Selena Gomez

#23. The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#24. I remember when I was a kid being called names, including the 'n' word. The first time that happened, it really bothered me. But most of the people I dealt with were all white. Most of my close friends were white.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#25. When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#26. This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#27. Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Jerry Seinfeld

#28. The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#29. I'm the same Harlow. I'm just secure in the man who loves me. I have nothing to hide from you. That right there was the reason this woman owned me.

Abbi Glines

#30. He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#31. I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith

#32. I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

R.A. Salvatore

#33. As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#34. You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

Ken Griffey Jr.