Don Mattingly Quotes

Don Mattingly — American Athlete born on April 20, 1961,

Donald Arthur Mattingly is an American professional baseball first baseman, coach and current manager of the Miami Marlins. Nicknamed "The Hit Man" and "Donnie Baseball", he spent his entire 14-year career playing with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years... (wikipedia)

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.