Quotes About Sammy Sosa

#1. Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

Rafael Soriano

#2. What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

Mark McGwire

#3. The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Jose Canseco

#4. For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.

Bill Dedman

#5. Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Mark McGwire

#6. Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Bill Dedman

#7. I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

Mark Grace

#8. Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.

George W. Bush

#9. Yes, I'm the real Sammy Sosa, and this is my Pinterest,

Sammy Sosa

#10. Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.

Bill Dedman

#11. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Sammy Sosa

#12. I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

Sammy Sosa

#13. Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

Sammy Sosa

#14. I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

Sammy Sosa

#15. Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

Sammy Sosa

#16. It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.

Sammy Sosa

#17. When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Sammy Sosa

#18. Mark (McGwire) is the man.

Sammy Sosa

#19. It's always an honor to represent your country.

Sammy Sosa

#20. I don't like controversy.

Sammy Sosa

#21. My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

Sammy Sosa

#22. I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

Sammy Sosa

#23. Mark (McGwire), you know I love you. It's been unbelievable. I wish you could be here with me today. I know you are watching me and I know you have the same feelings for me as I have for you in my heart.

Sammy Sosa

#24. I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean.

Sammy Sosa

#25. I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

Sammy Sosa

#26. I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.

Sammy Sosa

#27. Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

Bill Dedman

#28. I don't want to get fat.

Sammy Sosa

#29. He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

Sammy Sosa

#30. I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

Sammy Sosa

#31. You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

Sammy Sosa

#32. I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

Sammy Sosa

#33. If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

Sammy Sosa

#34. Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

Sammy Sosa

#35. I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

Sammy Sosa

#36. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Sammy Sosa

#37. They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.

Sammy Sosa

#38. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

Sammy Sosa