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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.

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.

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

I hear you in the morning sun.

You can forget what people said and did, but you can never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what the taught you.

i was a prisoner of events

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.