Alex Rodriguez
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"Alexander Emmanuel" ""Alex"" "Rodriguez", nicknamed ""A-Rod"", is an American professional baseball third baseman and shortstop for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers. Rodriguez was one of the sport's most highly touted prospects and is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. During his 20-year career, Rodriguez has amassed a .300 batting average, 654 home runs, 1,969 runs batted in (RBIs), and 2,939 hit (baseball)/hits. He is a 14-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star and has won three American League (AL) Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award/Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, and two Rawlings Gold Glove Award/Gold Glove Awards. However, he has led a highly controversial career due to his lucrative contracts and his use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

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When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

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Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

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I'm not trying to hit homers, ... I'm trying to hit to all parts of the field, left-center to right-center.

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I don't see it as a big deal at all, ... I look at it as a new challenge. I won two Gold Gloves and an MVP at shortstop. I thought I achieved just about everything personally at shortstop. Now it's time to win. I've always thought of myself as a team player. Playing third base is the ultimate team move.

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It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

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This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.

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I've never seen Matsui ever make a mistake. That's the weirdest thing.

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Tomorrow, 7:05 p.m., we've got to take care of business.

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Joe DiMaggio is such an icon, he's almost like a cartoon character, ... I have so much respect for him. When it's all said and done, it's something you can look back on and say that you're proud to be mentioned in the same sentence as Joe.

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