Mariano Rivera
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"Mariano Rivera" is a Panamanian former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed ""Mo"" and ""Sandman"", Rivera spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer (baseball)/closer for 17 seasons. A thirteen-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in Save (baseball)/saves (652) and List of Major League Baseball leaders in games finished/games finished (952). Rivera won five American League (AL) Rolaids Relief Man Awards and three Major League Baseball Delivery Man Award/Delivery Man of the Year Awards, and he finished in the top three in voting for the AL Cy Young Award four times.

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I knew that, but I wasn't thinking about that, ... I just wanted to get him out.

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I wanted to be in there and face Ortiz.

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I didn't want to give in, ... I didn't want him to get a little blooper or something. I wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight.

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I thought it was one of those games where he was going to go all the way, ... He was really pumped up. He was a different pitcher today.

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We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

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Times are changing. I can't conceive what Juan Marichal and all those guys went through before. Today you have so many Latin players, so many Latino superstars, they take care of the kids when they come up to the big leagues. It's different now. It's totally different.

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I didn't want to give him anything for him to get a blooper. I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

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I could have thrown 100 pitches today and it wouldn't have mattered.

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They called me in the eighth to be ready, ... I said, 'I'm ready.'

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