Ken Griffey Jr. Quotes

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

We respect all our opponents.

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.

There shouldn't be any true malice towards your opponent.

I give the utmost importance to each opponent; otherwise, I can't move forward.

If you are an educated man, you respect your opponent, his team, and all those people around; then you are truly a human being.

I respect all my opponents.

I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.

I always respect my team and my competitors. I never had problems with anybody.

You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

I hate competition.

In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.