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You can never cross the ocean until you

Have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Christopher Columbus

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living,

But you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
- Roy Campanella

Like most people who are great at things,

He (Chipper Jones) was just singularly driven.

This is what he was born and raised to do.

He says all the time, 'I would have done this or that.'

But I don't believe there was any alternative in his mind.

He dabbled in other things. He was a very good football

Player and a heck of a basketball player.

He was one of those athletes who was good at whatever

He did. But you could tell from the outset that [baseball]

Was what he was going to do, and nothing was getting

In his way.

- B.B. Abbott

Chipper Jones’ life-long friend and agent