Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon
Johnny David Damonis an American professional baseball outfielder who began playing in Major League Baseballin 1995. He last played in 2012, though he has not officially retired. In his MLB career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Raysand Cleveland Indians. Damon also played for the Thailand national baseball team and was a member of the squad for the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifiers...
accept bring career fans great proud reputation
I thought the first day was awesome. It's great to see a lot of the fans accept me as being a Yankee. You feel proud because you know what you've done over your career and you know what your reputation is, and they know what I can bring to New York.
asked assured awesome baseball days freedom great land proud represent rest type
When it was asked if I would represent my country, there was no hesitation. I am proud to live in a land with freedom where we can even have this type of baseball tournament. Rest assured it will be great days for fans. It's just awesome to represent our country.
awesome father might opportunity proud represent thrilled
It's the only opportunity I might have to represent my country. I'm thrilled about it. I'm very proud to be an American. My father was in the military. It's just awesome representing our country.
bragging proud represent team
It's the world bragging rights. And I'm proud to represent Team USA.
country except great needed negative people playoff proudly represent stuff tournament
It's such a great thing, it's something that needed to be done. There has been so much negative stuff going on with baseball. We need to represent our country proudly and with respect. This tournament is a playoff atmosphere, except it has people being proud of their heritage. It's awesome.
hard lose men
I thought we'd find a way to win. It's hard to lose when you put that many men on base.
lead single stop taken
I think we've taken the lead in every single game. We just stop scoring. We can't stop scoring. We've got to keep going.
change happen move moved wish
I think it's the way things show up in writing. I'm not angry. I'm happy. They wanted to move on and I have moved on. I wish them luck. Things happen all the time. Change happens.
happened
It happened -- I'm over it, so they've got to get over it.
deep ours playoffs
We have to play well. If we don't play well, we won't get to the playoffs or get deep into October. It's ours to lose.
ours
We have to play well. If we don't play well, we're not going to make the playoffs, but ... right now it's ours to lose.
beat blue definitely good
We're definitely excited. We just beat a very good Blue Jays team. We're going to go see what we can do.
definitely four offense winning
We're definitely better than what we've been showing. When you give up four runs, with our offense we should be winning but we're not.
bounce enjoy everybody four happen losing losses move special streak team
We enjoy being around everybody because we know we have a special team and we know those four losses are not going to happen much this year, four in a row. We know we're going to bounce back from the losing streak and move forward.