Rafael Palmeiro Quotes

• I’m not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn’t know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Answer

• I’m very happy for the Contreras family. They’re out. Now they’ve got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy

• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Career, Worked

• The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Family, Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Deals

• He who obeys God’s laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obey, Laws, Find

• It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Erase

• They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Era, Player, Played

• Three thousand, it’s just a number. It’s just a game.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Number, Game

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn’t have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That’s the tragedy of this.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tragedy, Happened

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that… when people take things that now aren’t even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Products, Sense

• Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Know, Kid

• When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Truth, Uncategorized

  Tags in Testing

• To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away

• You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Able, Career, Living

• Yes, but I – you know, it’s been such a long time, I’m sure that I’ve got cousins and uncles that I’ve never met before, you know, that I’ve left behind.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Longer, Never, Met

• You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn’t about to turn my back on them.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Believed

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career, Come

• Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Higher, Step

• You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Attainable

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Disease

Rafael Palmeiro (40)

Birth:	24th September, 1964
Nationality:	Cuban
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Rafael Palmeiro Corrales is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and left fielder. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. He played for the Cubs, Texas Rangers, and the Baltimore Orioles. He was named to the MLB All-Star Team four times, and won the Gold Glove three times. He is a member of the 500 home run club and the 3,000 hit club and is only the fourth player in history to be a member of both.

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