Alex Cora Quotes

Alex Cora

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : October 18, 1975

I'm not here to finish last, I'm here to win championships.

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There is nothing better than to have gratitude and tell people that you are just blessed that they're around your life.

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I'm thankful for the Astros organization for giving me a chance to be part of it.

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We're in sports, and you have to perform.

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I'm just a utility guy.

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My dad was a founder of our Little League chapter in my hometown so you talked baseball in our family for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everybody says I was in diapers with a bat running around a Little League ballpark.

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I'm not the fastest runner, I have no power, I'm a .247 hitter in the big leagues, but for some reason, I'm always in the middle of things and always around winning ballclubs.

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I'm not a five-tool player, if that really exists.

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Offensively, everybody loves the homers - we get it.

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The most important thing about the whole analytical world and the coaches, there has to be a connection and we have to understand that there's a lot of money we're investing in the analytical department. When they invest money in this, as coaches, you have to embrace the information.

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At the end of the day, you know who wins games? The players.

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At the end of the day, you have to recognize who's doing a good job. Who's in a good situation in the clubhouse? Who's ready to play?

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This is my passion. This is my job, first of all. But I'm a baseball fan. After the World Series, it's like, 'Let's go. Let's try to win another one.'

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I think I was about 8 and Santa brought the Millennium Falcon and, I think, everything else that went with it. The setup, they set it up like a planet and all that. That's my biggest memory. It was the coolest thing ever, at that moment.

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We go to my mom's house on Christmas Eve.

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Something about losing a loved one, I hated life for a while.

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I love managing at the big league level.

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My daughter's education is very important to me.

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It's always good to have the last at-bat if you are down - no doubt about it.

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It seems like everybody that I played for, they respected me and were very honest. There were certain situations, and I've seen it, when managers aren't honest with players. But everybody I played for, in that sense, they were very good with me.

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