Chipper Quotes
Chipper Quotes
"I think Chipper Jones is not human. I think he's been created by Ted Turner and some scientists."
-Lenny Dykstra on Chipper
"It's frustrating, but that's baseball. It's not played on paper. It's not played inside TV sets."
-Chipper on the frustration of losing to the Florida Marlins
"It means a lot, the population has the power to pick the starting lineup and the majority of the population feels I'm the best third baseman in the National League. That's a great honor. I'm flattered."
-Chipper on being a starter in the All-Star Game
"It's like being up in front of 50,000 people, naked."
-Chipper when asked if he was nervous during the home run derby
"He'll be an all-star forever."
-Bobby Cox on Chipper
"He's got the potential to be one of those upper-echelon, top-five-or-10 players from a certain decade or era. If he continues to stay healthy and get better every year like he has, he'll definitely be the class of his era of ballplayers. No question."
-Tom Glavine on Chipper's potential
"The sky's the limit for a kid who's a switch-hitter with power and a stroke like he has."
-Dante Bichette on Chipper's potential
"When I saw him from the other side [with Colorado], I thought he was a good power hitter -- not 35-40 [homers], but 25-30. Now, I see this guy's bigger. He doesn't look as big from the other side. But when I saw him in the locker room in Orlando, I said, 'Damn, Chipper, you're bigger than I thought.' He's a tall guy, a big guy."
-Andres Galarraga on Chipper's size
"There's a changing of the guard going on around here. There's no question about that."
-Tom Glavine on Jones' new leadership role
"Do I go out and put a big 'C' on my shoulder and call myself captain of this club? No, I would never do that. But I think my going out there every day for 160 games and having the pressure of hitting third in the lineup and playing third base, driving in or scoring runs like I do on offense, some of that responsibility is going to fall on my shoulders."
-Chipper on his new leadership role
"(A slump) can last anywhere for three or four games to 10 days to two weeks. I went through one at the beginning of last season when I couldn't hit water if I fell out of a boat."
-Chipper on last year's slump
"Chipper probably worked harder than any of them in the offseason. He was down here real early. I think he thinks he had a bad year."
-Bobby Cox on Chipper starting Spring Training early
"I don't think people realize how many ice bags are used in here and how many Ace bandages are just holding body parts on."
-Chipper on injuries
"It's like he was born to play this game."
-Mark Wohlers on Chipper
"I sometimes think that my first name is 'Chipper's' and my last name's 'dad.'"
-Larry, Sr.
"Those things, I don't do those things. Something as fundamental as base-running and getting thrown out like that twice, I mean, that might happen to me once in two years. And it happened twice in two nights. It was something weird. It was like an out-of-body experience. I was looking down on this guy and he's messing up time and time again. I don't know."
-Chipper on his base-running mistakes in the NLCS against Florida
"We're thrilled to death with Chipper Jones right now. It's worked out. He's something special."
-Bobby Cox on Chipper as the #1 draft pick in 1990 instead of Todd Van Poppel
"I can honestly say, if I'd have gotten up, we'd have won that ballgame. I was so focused on that at-bat, and so ready for that at-bat. I wasn't the least bit concerned that I was going to be the last out of the World Series. I could've re-wrote history with that one at-bat. And how many chances do you get?
"To be honest, I haven't been up in a do-or-die situation that could've compared to that. That's the moment that you dream of your whole life. I was one pitch away from being two outs, top of the ninth inning, Game 6 of the World Series, bases loaded, down a run. That's what you go out in the backyard for your whole life and you're thinking about, 'How sweet would it be to get a base hit?' And every time in that backyard, I got a base hit to win the game. Every single time."
-Chipper on waiting on deck in Game 6 of the World Series against the New York Yankees
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