Best 12 quotes of Nomar Garciaparra on MyQuotes

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

I love the game of baseball.

It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.