Brett Gardner quotes

Brett Gardner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.”
-- Brett Gardner

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“Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.”
-- Brett Gardner

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“I never go up there trying to hit a home run”
-- Brett Gardner

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“Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.”
-- Brett Gardner

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“I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.”
“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.
“I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.”

Source : "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.
“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
“Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.”
“It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.”
“What the hell difference does it make?”
“Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.”
“Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.”
“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

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