Mariano Rivera Quotes

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

I just try to take away what I can from every situation, to always keep learning. Life is hard. Life is humbling. I do all I can to keep it simple

wherever I am, at any time, whether I am surrounded by fancy walls or no walls. I don’t need anything but the love of the people who matter to me. It’s how I choose to look at life.

I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys can be unhittable for a year or two and then disappear? It's because it takes a ton of concentration, and self-belief, to stay in the moment in this way and not let the highs and lows mess with your psyche.

All around me are guys who have been groomed to do this for a decade or more, and here I am, a guy who got here because one Sunday afternoon the Panama Oeste Cowboys needed somebody to finish a game.

Books read by me and my friends between 1947-1957: Lautaro (Fernando Alegría), La Hechizada, El Mestizo Alejo (Víctor Domingo Silva), On Panta (and others by Mariano Latorre), Robin Hood (anonymous), La Araucana (Ercilla), Little Men (L. M. Alcott), Monica Sanders (S. Reyes), Gypsy Ballads (García Lorca), The Maurizius Case (J. Wassermann), The Skin (Curzio Malaparte), The Vortex (J. E. Rivera), Demian (H. Hesse), Point Counter Point, Ape and Essence, Brave New World and others (Huxley).