Jimmy Rollins
Jimmy Rollins received the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award during his career as a professional shortstop and baseball player.
Born on November 27, 1978, in Oakland, California, Rollins attended Encinal High School before entering professional baseball. He went on to establish himself as a shortstop, a position that calls for work both in the field and at the plate. The road from Oakland to earning the Most Valuable Player Award represents the arc of a career built from those early years in California.
As a United States citizen who made his living as a professional baseball player and shortstop, Rollins carried his background at Encinal High School forward into a career that reached the level of MVP recognition. That award stands as the concrete marker of what his time in professional baseball produced.
Quotes by Jimmy Rollins
Jimmy Rollins's insights on:
The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player.
I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.
People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.
If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.