Eric Davis Quotes

Eric Davis (50)

Birth:	29th May, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

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Births

• 1952 - Dan Benishek
• 1932 - Dieter Rams
• 1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
• 1942 - Lynn Davies
• 1806 - John Stuart Mill

Deaths

• 2008 - Dakin Williams
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• 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.

  Eric Davis

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• 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.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Basketball, School

• I don’t think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you’ll never be as good as they expect.

  Eric Davis

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• Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can’t come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That’s part of the game.

  Eric Davis

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• Circulating through the children’s ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I’ve lived for 35 years.

  Eric Davis

  Topics in Children, God

• 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.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Tough, Young, Player

• 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.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Greatest, Game, Earth

• I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn’t cry. Why would we cry? You didn’t get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

  Eric Davis

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Self, Remember

• If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way.

  Eric Davis

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• 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?

  Eric Davis

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• People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, ‘I just swing.’ It’s the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I’m pretty fast at everything.

  Eric Davis

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• People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren’t here to enjoy them, what good do they do?

  Eric Davis

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• That’s just my family’s mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  Eric Davis

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• When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you’ve developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

  Eric Davis

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• I don’t listen to what people say about me and I don’t read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I’m not going to worry about it.

  Eric Davis

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• 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?

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Self, Comparison, Impossible

• It’s like, now you’re actually complaining because you’re making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that’s going to pay you that.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Complaining, Question, Game

• Never give up and don’t ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I’m a firm believer that I don’t worry about anything I can’t control.

  Eric Davis

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• My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.

  Eric Davis

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• I’m no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I’m part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

  Eric Davis

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  Tags in Professional, Baseball