Top 33 Quotes About Ken Griffey Jr: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ken Griffey Jr

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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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.

#6. There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Sharon Stone

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

Ken Griffey Jr.

#8. to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125

Mark Helprin

#9. A moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

Isaac Asimov

#10. I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

Fred Durst

#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. 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.

#13. 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.

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

Ken Griffey Jr.

#15. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Halle Berry

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

Ken Griffey Jr.

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

Ken Griffey Jr.

#18. It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. Don't spend your energy and time worrying about where you're going after this life. You'll only end up missing out on this life. Then what's the point?

Dennis M. Dupuis

#20. For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

Angela Ahrendts

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

Ken Griffey Jr.

#22. 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.

#23. 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.

#24. Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

Chris Pratt

#25. 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.

#26. I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Ed Lee

#27. 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.

#28. The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

David R. Brower