Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez, nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American professional baseball designated hitter for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez was one of the sport's most highly touted prospects and is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. During his 20-year career, Rodriguez has amassed a .297 batting average, 696 home runs, over 2000 runs batted in, over 2000 runs scored, and over...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 July 1975
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Every family has issues. When you think about what happens in other clubhouses this is quite trivial. I love Gary and in the course of eight months if family are not going to say things that they regret or think from the hip it's not real.
Every family has issues. If you look at what happens in other clubhouses, this is all very trivial. I love Gary. Over the course of eight months, if a family doesn't say things they regret or things from the hip, it's not real.
As the night got later, it got a little worse and stiffened up. I think I should be all right.
Familiarity has a lot to do with it. We haven't seen a lot of the Korean and Japanese pitchers. But when we face Mexico, it's more like a major league game to us.
We've been swinging the bats progressively better the last three days. We have to work on being more consistent.
We were like desperate animals trying to survive, and animals are most dangerous when they are in a snare.
We win and lose as a team ... I'm as proud of these guys ... We left our guts on the field.
We could win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. My benchmark is so high, whatever I do it's never going to be enough and I understand that. Maybe when I retire is when all the critics and all that stuff is going to end.
Both Brian and (manager) Joe (Torre) did the best job they have ever done in their careers to save our season,
Well, if it was in November, they'd be talking about why wasn't it in March? And if it was in July, they would say why isn't it in November? So I don't think any timing is perfect.
We're taking every game like it's October, because it is for us.
Tonight we posted another win. Now they know where we're at.
We don't want to give any at-bats away. We had tonight what we have to have, a blue-collar approach.
We don't want to be in that situation again. We realize that was way too big a hole that we built ourselves and it was a miracle that we actually won the division. We know that every game in April shows up in September.