Johnny Damon Quotes

Johnny David Damon is a former American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1995 to 2012. During his MLB career, Damon played for the Kansas City Royals , Oakland Athletics , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , Detroit Tigers , Tampa Bay Rays , and Cleveland Indians . Damon also played for the Thailand national baseball team and was a member of the squad for the 2013 World Baseball Classic qualifiers. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. November 1973
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Johnny Damon Quotes

“We are not the cowboys anymore — we are just the idiots this year”

Statement about the Boston Red Sox being just "idiots" out to rewrite history. This was before the playoff games in which they overcame a 0-3 game deficit against the New York Yankees, to win a record 8 straight post-season games, ending with a shut-out of the St. Louis Cardinals, and winning their first World Series since 1918; as quoted in "Damon Says Red Sox are 'Idiots' at MSNBC (6 October 2004) http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6193582/
Context: We are not the cowboys anymore — we are just the idiots this year … So we are going to go out and try to swing the bats, find the holes, and, hopefully, good things happen. … We were just a bunch of cowboys out there last year, just enjoying every minute … Now, we know we have something to prove. We don’t want to be remembered as a team that, OK, we keep making it to the playoffs, but we keep having tough losses. … I mean, we want to be known as a team that rewrites the history books. … This is definitely the best ballclub I’ve been on. I mean, that Oakland ballclub in 2001 was pretty awesome. We were a bunch of frat boys there. This team is a little older, but we have that same attitude. We feel like we can win every game, we feel like we like to have fun, and I think that’s why this team is liked by so many people out there. … You know, the kids watching us out there — we’ve got the long hair, we’ve got the cornrows, we got just guys acting like idiots. And I think the fans out there like it.

“There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. … It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.”

"Notes: Damon ponders the future" at MLB.com (1 May 2005) http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050501&content_id=1034754&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos

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