36 Quotes by Rod Carew

Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't.

Tell your friends to get their hearts checked.

To me, I was just doing my job when I took the field, but to understand how close I came to death, I now realize what God has given me when he brought me into this world; he knew what he was doing.

My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.

I think the Angels could use me the most. The Angels don't have a day-to-day first baseman.

I always felt like I was healthy; I never felt like anything was wrong with me. Until the morning that I had a massive heart attack. On the golf course, by myself.

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

Here I am, a black man with a white man's heart. In the end, that's what God wants us to do. He wants us to help, and he wants us to share.

I go back to when my youngest daughter was dying. I never asked my Friend Upstairs, 'Why me?' And He's the only one who has the answers.