Torii Hunter
Torii Hunter
Torii Kedar Hunteris an American former professional baseball center fielder and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Detroit Tigers from 1997 through 2015. Hunter was a five-time All-Star, won nine consecutive Gold Glove Awards as a center fielder and was a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 July 1975
CityPine Bluff, AR
CountryUnited States of America
I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.
My grandmother was the type of woman who always smiled and said, 'Treat people like you want to be treated, and life is so much easier.' My mom is the same way.
I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.
Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.
Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.
(Robertson) was throwing well and we couldn't pick up the ball early because of the shadows. But that's only our excuse, we didn't have any trouble seeing the ball. The second time around we were hitting the but we didn't have any luck.
I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.
I yell and scream when something good happens. I jog around on one leg, ... You watch them on TV and you have things you wanted to say to them and I haven't had a chance to talk to them face to face. I miss the clubhouse. They miss me, I hope.
He'd say: 'Get up there and go play this game. Forget about it. Just have fun and keep playing this game that I taught you.
He'd look at all of my box scores. If I went 4-for-4, he'd call me up and congratulate me. Or if I'd go 0-for-3, he'd call me up and get on to me.
He loved to talk to you. He helped the younger guys -- especially the younger black players.
Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.
I think Matt Lawton is going to surprise everyone. He's coming in there with something to prove.
I thought I had a shot at it.