Carlton Fisk Quotes
It`s not what you achieve, it`s what you overcome. That`s what defines your career.
I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn`t want to miss seeing it go out.
It`s funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there`d be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn`t believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it`s almost like it happened to somebody else.
A million years went by quick.
The `70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you`d ever be up there with those guys.
