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
Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully this year I'll do a good job. I don't want to go ahead.
You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.
I'm not perfect, and today was tough. We should have won the game, but I didn't do my job. It was just one pitch, but there was no margin for error.
I didn't want to give him anything for him to get a blooper. I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
It was a fantastic finish! 'Mo' was lights-out in the ninth, ... And now we've got these crying Red Sox fans, just as it should be. Now we've just got to turn up the intensity tomorrow and push the Red Sox into a playoff with the Indians.
They called me in the eighth to be ready, ... I said, 'I'm ready.'
I wish the time would have been different; when we didn't have to worry about Spring Training and could have been throwing already. It is what it is. It's too bad, because you always want to represent your country. I just wouldn't be ready.
starters having the kind of years that have won it before.
I trust my pitches, ... I trust my pitches and I trust my teammates.
I've seen it for years. That doesn't surprise me at all.
I could have thrown 100 pitches today and it wouldn't have mattered.
I wanted to be in there and face Ortiz.