39 Quotes by Chili Davis

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.

You don’t get old being stupid.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don’t hang anything unless its for being world champions.

I’m at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

It’s good to know you’re working for someone you’re familiar with, who’s a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

There are certain things I can’t do, certain pitches I can’t hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn’t what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.