Mike Piazza Quotes

• Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

  Mike Piazza

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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• It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

  Mike Piazza

  Morning, Mean, Sunday

  "Talking God and baseball with Mike Piazza". Interview with Michael Kress, www.seattletimes.com. July 21, 2007.

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• I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

  Mike Piazza

  Trying, Prove, Self Approval

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• I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

  Mike Piazza

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

  Mike Piazza

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, School, Lasts

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• Never let your dreams go away.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, Dream, Going Away

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• I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

  Mike Piazza

  Health, Looks, Body

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• I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

  Mike Piazza

  Gay, People, Insulting

  Mike Piazza (2014). “Long Shot”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Baseball, Depressing

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• I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

  Mike Piazza

  School, Balls, Knees

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• When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV.

  Mike Piazza

  Couple, Coffee, Heart

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• Please don't quote me.

  Mike Piazza

  Please

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• One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

  Mike Piazza

  Slumps, Happens, One Thing

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• When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.

  Mike Piazza

  Confused, Games, Trying

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• I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

  Mike Piazza

  Baseball, Player, Careers

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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