Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.

My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.

If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.

Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.