I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
DEREK JETER There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work hard...
DEREK JETER We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content wi...
DEREK JETER Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's somethi...
DEREK JETER For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doin...
DEREK JETER Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
DEREK JETER When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
DEREK JETER You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business,...
DEREK JETER I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go som...
DEREK JETER I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i...
DEREK JETER The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have ...
DEREK JETER Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet ...
DEREK JETER You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s...
DEREK JETER I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with...
DEREK JETER I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo...
DEREK JETER Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your...
DEREK JETER I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this perso...
DEREK JETER I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distract...
DEREK JETER There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions...
DEREK JETER It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but ...
DEREK JETER The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
DEREK JETER I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they're asked questions and they think they...
DEREK JETER The last thing you need when you're not going well is to look over and see panic on your manager's f...
DEREK JETER If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate t...
DEREK JETER It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inni...
DEREK JETER If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, ...
DEREK JETER You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's imp...
DEREK JETER There are probably a lot of owners who aren't thrilled about it. This is something we feel is a good...
DEREK JETER The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
DEREK JETER My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
DEREK JETER I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like...
DEREK JETER It was a little scary when he starting throwing punches, ... I was scared. I didn't want to get hit.
DEREK JETER And if that happens, ... it'll be totally unfair. He's not playing. We are. It's our job to get it d...
DEREK JETER I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention...
DEREK JETER I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalama...
DEREK JETER My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be ju...
DEREK JETER It doesn't matter, ... Every situation is a new situation.
DEREK JETER We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with o...
DEREK JETER We made mistakes. That's what cost us a couple of runs.
DEREK JETER We've been playing good for a while. Hopefully, we can continue to do it when we get home.
DEREK JETER There's no sense of accomplishment. We didn't accomplish anything.
DEREK JETER From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't co...
DEREK JETER Nobody knows where it's going, up, down, left or right. He pitched well.
DEREK JETER I was thinking triple all the way. It's good, too, because it usually takes a triple to score Jorge.
DEREK JETER I don't see way you shoot for second place. We're still in a race for the AL East. We're trying to w...
DEREK JETER It shows, ... how hard this is.
DEREK JETER Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. ...
DEREK JETER We need to play well. We have to go out there and continue to play with the intensity we have and ho...
DEREK JETER I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other team...
DEREK JETER Two-out hits are pretty clutch, ... You have to find a way to come through in those situations.
DEREK JETER Every situation — every out — is huge.
DEREK JETER We never talked about it, never had to challenge ourselves any more than usual. We wanted to play we...
DEREK JETER Our fans don't want to see us win the Wild Card. They want to see us win the division.
DEREK JETER You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
DEREK JETER That's the thing with the postseason. Who cares if you struggle before that? ... You just have to ke...
DEREK JETER You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score ...
DEREK JETER God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
DEREK JETER It was nice. But it's not Bernie's last game at Yankee Stadium.
DEREK JETER It's going to be weird. He has that voice that tells you it's Yankee Stadium. You don't have to see ...
DEREK JETER It's going to be weird. He's got that voice that tells you you're in Yankee Stadium. All you have to...
DEREK JETER I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 ...
DEREK JETER With the exception of the South Africa game, and I don't think you can count that one, we haven't sw...
DEREK JETER I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty muc...
DEREK JETER It's a two-way street. If a guy hasn't been seen before, it can be an advantage for you.
DEREK JETER My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
DEREK JETER I can only argue so much; he still makes the lineup,
DEREK JETER It's not that hard to figure out. I was always good in math.
DEREK JETER Moose, don't tell me you're throwing all your pitches yet, are you?
DEREK JETER [Coming in, Jeter had only three hits in 21 at-bats against Harper, with only one RBI.] It doesn't m...
DEREK JETER We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break,
DEREK JETER He's been huge. I think the thing with Chacon is he's not intimidated by anything. It seems like he ...
DEREK JETER He never throws the ball straight, ... He just has nasty stuff, especially when he faces me.
DEREK JETER He always messes with the lineup. The thing is, it doesn't matter if you hit 1, 2, 3 or ninth, you s...
DEREK JETER Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get i...
DEREK JETER You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's ou...
DEREK JETER I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.
DEREK JETER You have to enjoy that situation. You can't be afraid of failing. You have confidence if you've had ...
DEREK JETER Any way you can get it done. We have to find ways to win; it may not be pretty at times, but the bot...
DEREK JETER I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it...
DEREK JETER They do all the little things. I think they're a pest for most teams.
DEREK JETER He did a great job. He just kind of teased the strike zone, throwing borderline pitches and making y...
DEREK JETER Do you have an ulcer yet?
DEREK JETER During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.
DEREK JETER You can't say you're embarrassed because they're major-league players as well. It's just one of thos...
DEREK JETER That's how you win - pitching and defense.
DEREK JETER It's not like we have to flip any switches,
DEREK JETER It's always easier to hit when it's a low-scoring game and your pitcher is doing the job. It all sta...
DEREK JETER My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
DEREK JETER Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You...
DEREK JETER You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.
DEREK JETER I went to school on Senior Skip Day.
DEREK JETER I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.
DEREK JETER My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me...
DEREK JETER I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys...
DEREK JETER My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to b...
DEREK JETER I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other team...
DEREK JETER So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomor...
DEREK JETER Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they ...
DEREK JETER That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order milita...
K.W. JETER It took something out of us. I know a 21-3 lead can be erased pretty quickly if your offense execute...
CHRIS JETER Our tallest dude is 6-3 and their tallest dude is 6-9. And when the 6-9 dude is shooting 3-pointers,...
LANCE JETER The adoption of the revised settlement allows us to move beyond the problems so we can focus on solu...
JOHN JETER It was flattering, but it couldn't have worked out any better the fact that we decided that I'm stil...
ROB JETER Distruggere qualcosa è il modo migliore d'imparare.
K.W. JETER He gets one of [the passengers] handcuffed when the suspect drives back down the hill.
DON JETER I'm sure Officer Naismith wishes it hadn't happened. A lot of other people wish it hadn't happened. ...
DON JETER Officer Naismith is in front and began to fire at the vehicle and driver.
DON JETER If that's the best opportunity to come around, that's what I'm going to do. A lot more schools have ...
LANCE JETER We know how long it's been since somebody won back-to-back, but we're not focused on that. We're try...
LANCE JETER Sometimes it goes their way; Sometimes it doesn't. Fortunately, it goes my way most every time I get...
LANCE JETER He tried to make a play for his team because he's the captain. You can't blame him for that.
LANCE JETER It was just another chapter in a great rivalry, another story of two great teams fighting hard for o...
LANCE JETER My coaches have been telling me all year that sometimes you have to trust your teammates.
LANCE JETER If he can't do it, then I don't know how hard it's going to be for me to do it. I'm going to wait an...
LANCE JETER It's probably a good sign for Megan. She's going to an up-and-coming program where she can have a ch...
KATRINA JETER This recruiting thing got going before I got here, so that's not the reason they were interested in ...
KATRINA JETER Probably center field or right field. She is one of those pitchers who might get an inning here and ...
KATRINA JETER Everybody rebounds but when it comes down to it, Katy and I think it's up to us to take over that as...
KIRSTEN JETER It was only important to us because we were playing in it. We're happy with the win, but if we would...
KIRSTEN JETER Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true ...
K.W. JETER Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid...
SENA JETER NASLUND If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance,...
SENA JETER NASLUND She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way...
SENA JETER NASLUND I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.
'What can we do with our stories,'...
SENA JETER NASLUND Los buenos actos resuenan a nuestro paso, mucho tiempo después de que hayamos olvidado haberlos rea...
SENA JETER NASLUND Perhaps Vulnerability was a land that, for some people, could never be entirely traversed.
SENA JETER NASLUND When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.
BO DEREK For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.
BO DEREK I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks...
BO DEREK That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suff...
BO DEREK Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often he...
BO DEREK I have never dated. I have no experience. It's terrible, and I'm scared to death of it, too,...
BO DEREK We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much ...
BO DEREK There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pi...
BO DEREK It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but ...
BO DEREK I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and...
BO DEREK I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses...
BO DEREK Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really...
BO DEREK I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend t...
BO DEREK I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
BO DEREK When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expressio...
BO DEREK I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when...
BO DEREK Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me...
BO DEREK It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always exp...
BO DEREK Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
BO DEREK I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never h...
BO DEREK Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. Al...
BO DEREK '10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to...
BO DEREK We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in ...
DEREK JACOBI I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find ...
DEREK BLASBERG If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get ...
DEREK SIVERS I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchs...
DEREK BLASBERG Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ...
DEREK LANDY When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments....
DEREK CIANFRANCE Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horr...
DEREK LANDY I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of...
DEREK JARMAN I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
DEREK LANDY You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
DEREK LANDY mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves."
"Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"
DEREK LANDY Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL I read; I travel; I become
DEREK WALCOTT Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
DEREK LANDY All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ...
DEREK WALCOTT How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requ...
DEREK WALL The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
DEREK JARMAN Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...
DEREK WALCOTT Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
DEREK WALCOTT I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surf...
DEREK JARMAN If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
DEREK WALCOTT The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malprac...
DEREK JARMAN One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flower...
DEREK JARMAN Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH