Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeteris an American former professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a central figure of the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding, and leadership. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits, doubles, games played, stolen bases, times on base, plate appearancesand at bats. His accolades include 14 All-Star selections, five Gold...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1974
CityPequannock, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Winning is one of the most special moments. Every time I take the field it's a special moment. The fans are the ones that make it special. Because that's what we do it for.
Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.
I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.
I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.
We discussed it briefly for about five minutes and I haven't heard anything else about it, ... It wasn't like a threat or anything like that. It was just a letter from some guy. I haven't even thought about it again.
We made mistakes. That's what cost us a couple of runs.
Well, you don't have to look at the scoreboard anymore.
We had chances, we had opportunities to score and we couldn't come up with hits. You can't give teams extra outs.
We get a lot of people here. It's always been that way. It seems like every year we get a big-name guy: Clemens, Knoblauch, Matsui, Alex, Jason, Johnny, Randy. So it's really nothing new for us.
We didn't really give them much to cheer about.
We're familiar with them and they're familiar with us, so the best team over the next five games will win.
We're helpless now. There's nothing you can do. We just wait to see what happens. But we put ourselves in that position.
We've faced him 100 times playing with Baltimore. He's always been pretty tough. He knows how to pitch. He mixes it up.
We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break,