Top 37 Quotes About Mariano Rivera
#1. If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?
Alex Rodriguez
#2. The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.
Andrea Tantaros
#3. It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
Bruce Sutter
#4. 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
#6. I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.
Mariano Rivera
#7. If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
Mariano Rivera
#9. Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
#10. I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
Mariano Rivera
#12. Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
Mariano Rivera
#13. I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.
Mariano Rivera
#14. Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.
Mariano Rivera
#15. My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.
Mariano Rivera
#17. My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
Mariano Rivera
#20. That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.
Mariano Rivera
#21. I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.
Mariano Rivera
#22. I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.
Mariano Rivera
#23. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
Mariano Rivera
#24. I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.
Mariano Rivera
#25. I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.
Mariano Rivera
#26. There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
Mariano Rivera
#28. You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
Mariano Rivera
#29. God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.
Mariano Rivera
#30. You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
Mariano Rivera
#31. Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
Mariano Rivera
#34. I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.
Mariano Rivera
#35. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.
Mariano Rivera
#36. I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.
Mariano Rivera
#37. I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
Mariano Rivera
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