Kirby Puckett Quotations

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

Man, see, you should have picked up that bat and baseball and learned to play the game when we were trying to teach you. You ain't going to make no money in journalism.

Yeah, I've been here, man. Where these guys are, I've been there. I guess it comes to a point in your career where it feels good for me to come back, to give something back like this.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye. And just think how the sun has shined, right up to the doors of this great hall, the shrine for the greatest game in the world and the greatest players in the world ? baseball.

I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.

Can you all just do me one favor? Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us.

I don't work with the younger players. That's the manager's department. What I can do is go out and play as hard as I can.

Tomorrow isn't promised to any of us.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

All I can do is go out and play as great as I know how. I'm a professional. I didn't come here to just go through the motions, even when you're out of the playoff chase.