To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy. Dave Winfield Read Quote
But I’ll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support. Dave Winfield Read Quote
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. Dave Winfield Read Quote
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life. Dave Winfield Read Quote
You know, many of you kids can’t relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen. Dave Winfield Read Quote
All though I didn’t meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me. Dave Winfield Read Quote
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series. Dave Winfield Read Quote
