Chipper Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the season, ... You learn from that.
-- Chipper Jones

#Couple #Games #Feel Good
I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.
-- Chipper Jones

#Struggle #Thinking #Play
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
-- Chipper Jones

#Retirement #Happy Life #Golfers
I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.
-- Chipper Jones

#Baseball #Thinking #Earth
I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.
-- Chipper Jones

#Athlete #Loss #Thinking

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.
You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Chipper Jones famous quotes

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