List of Eric Davis Quotes

The Kids Competed For A Full 32 Minutes. We Want The Kids To Compete On Every Possession.

I Love The Game, It's The Greatest Game On Earth, That's Why I Can't Understand All Of This Talk About Trying To Make The Game Better. People Talk About The High Strike Zone And Changing This And That. Why? To Speed Up The Game? That's The Beauty Of Baseball. There Is No Time Element.

I Could've Played Basketball, But My Mind Was On Baseball. I Didn't Know What I Was In For. In High School It Was A Matter Of Talent. No One Told You What To Do.

Life Is Too Short To Worry About Anything

The Last Two Times I Went To Spring Training, I Had To Win A Job, And If I Didn't Get Off To A Blazing Start, I'm On The Bench. Now, I've Proven Myself, So It's Not Essential That I Get Off To A Real Good Start.

People Saw Me As Being Heroic, But I Was No More Heroic Than I Was With Other Injuries I Had, Like The Lacerated Kidney I Suffered During The 1990 World Series. It's Just That People Haven't Known Anyone With A Lacerated Kidney, But Everyone Can Relate To Someone With Cancer.

I've Been Hearing This Since I First Joined The Reds Organization, That I'm Going To Be The Next This Or That. It's Tough On A Young Player Coming Up. You Show Some Positive Things And Everybody Jumps On That And Says You Should Be The Next Willie Mays.

I'm Not Head-strong, And I'm Not Egotistical. I Understand Certain Things Better Now. I Won't Be Trying To Be Play Everyday. There's Only One Cal Ripken, One Lou Gehrig And One Joe Dimaggio. What Is Good For Them Isn't Necessarily Good For Eric Davis.

I'm Being Compared To The Impossible. I Never Saw Mays, Aaron Or Clemente Play. What About The People I Face Every Day? Tim Raines Is The Best? Mattingly Is The Best? Why Not Compare Me To My Peers?

Nothing I Did Contributed To Me Having Cancer, So I Can't Sit Back And Say, 'oh Why Me.' Why Not Me? Why Does Tragedy Always Have To Hit Someone Else?

You Don't Protect Mark Mcgwire. The Only Way To Protect Him Is Hit 70 Homers Yourself.

Not Being Re-signed In Baltimore Was Probably The Lowest Point, Mentally, Of My Career. That City Was The Only Place Where I Wanted To Be At The Time, Based On Everything That Had Transpired.