471 Quotes by Derek Jeter

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.

It's sort of like in New York - people always say with all the talent we have, we should make it to the World Series, right? But no matter how you look at it, talent doesn't win games, performance wins games. There are a lot of people who are talented who don't necessarily perform.

Everyone goes through stretches where they swing the bat well for a couple of weeks. You try to take advantage of it and hope that it lasts as long as possible.

We need to win one game. That's the only way we can look at it right now.

Nine games? It's too long.

We get a lot of people here. It's always been that way. It seems like every year we get a big-name guy: Clemens, Knoblauch, Matsui, Alex, Jason, Johnny, Randy. So it's really nothing new for us.

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

Everyone here has been fighting for a while. We've been playing well for a couple of months. Hopefully we'll go out there tomorrow night and play good.

We had chances, we had opportunities to score and we couldn't come up with hits. You can't give teams extra outs.