Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Riverais a Panamanian former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", Rivera spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons. A thirteen-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in savesand games finished. Rivera won five American LeagueRolaids Relief Man Awards and three Delivery Man of the Year Awards,...
NationalityPanamanian
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth29 November 1969
CityPanama City, Panama
CountryPanama
I think as I start getting a few more saves. Get to 400 first.
You always want to represent your country, but I wouldn't be ready.
starters having the kind of years that have won it before.
Look at the season I had in '96, ... But I won because we won the World Series. That's how it finished. I didn't think about it again.
We needed to go there and battle. Wang pitched tremendous and allowed our hitters to come back, and Cano hit the home run. It's the end of the season, so we have to give it everything we've got.
Times are changing. I can't conceive what Juan Marichal and all those guys went through before. Today you have so many Latin players, so many Latino superstars, they take care of the kids when they come up to the big leagues. It's different now. It's totally different.
We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.
Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully this year I'll do a good job. I don't want to go ahead.
Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.
He was great. He's been like that the whole year. It's a win, a win for the team but I wish he had won it,
Whatever it takes right now, ... This is the season right here, and we have to give everything we can.
I felt great. I was putting the ball where I wanted to put it.