Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Riverais a Panamanian former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", Rivera spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons. A thirteen-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in savesand games finished. Rivera won five American LeagueRolaids Relief Man Awards and three Delivery Man of the Year Awards,...
NationalityPanamanian
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth29 November 1969
CityPanama City, Panama
CountryPanama
I can?t put myself in that situation. New Yorkers would chase me all over New York State. Ten or $12 million (per year) ... what?s the difference?
I wish the time would have been different; when we didn't have to worry about Spring Training and could have been throwing already. It is what it is. It's too bad, because you always want to represent your country. I just wouldn't be ready.
If we do our thing, just as we did tonight, we'll be all right.
I didn't want to give in, ... I didn't want him to get a little blooper or something. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight.
I didn't want to give him anything for him to get a blooper. I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
Most of the time, he saved the games. The job that he did in the eighth inning was a tough job. To me, he was solid.
My arm feels great and I wanted to pitch. (Wednesday's) game was a bad one. This was much better. Much more like us.
My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.
Maybe the pitch count was up there, ... But I work hard every time I'm going there. What can I say? It was a good one.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.
I felt great. I was putting the ball where I wanted to put it.
What can you do, these are games we have to win.
Whatever we need to do, I will do, ... It's pretty much the same as always. We've had to fight hard the last couple of years.