Mike Piazza Quotes

#1. Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Mike Piazza

#2. It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

Mike Piazza

#3. I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Mike Piazza

#4. A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Mike Piazza

#5. You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Mike Piazza

#6. Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. Tell me you do not feel as I do and I will leave you and you may be with another.

Tamara Rose Blodgett

#8. Please don't quote me.

Mike Piazza

#9. One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

Mike Piazza

#10. I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Mike Piazza

#11. that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty. If

Marcel Proust

#12. I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Mike Piazza

#13. I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

Mike Piazza

#14. Never let your dreams go away.

Mike Piazza

#15. The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate,

Marc Andreessen

#16. You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Noel Coward

#17. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

George Washington

#18. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

Mike Piazza

#20. I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

Mike Piazza

#21. When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV.

Mike Piazza

#22. I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

Mike Piazza

#23. What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.

Barbara Kingsolver

#24. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Mike Piazza

#25. You love that, don't you?" I growled. "Being hammered by my cock ... you must think you're in ... fucking ... heaven."
Punctuation by cock thrust - the very best kind.

Shay Savage

#26. Rock 'n' roll ... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

Angie Everhart

#27. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

Pete Rose