Chili Davis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.”

“There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.”

“He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.”

“I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.”

“If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.”

“Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.”

“It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.”

“I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.”

“I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.”

“I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.”