- He's an American, former, major league short stop
who, played 20 seasons with the New York Yankees.
He's won five World Series championships
and is considered one of the greatest players
of his generation.
He's finished six all time and career hits
and first among short stops.
He's Derek Jeter.
And here are his top ten rules for success.
- One thing I've always prioritized you know,
my number one priortiy
for the last 20 years, was my baseball career.
That's it.
I did a lot of other things,
but I never waivered from that being my number one goal.
I'm always diggin', setting goals
and trying to reach those goals
and working hard
and there's steps along the way
so I think prioritizing is the number one thing.
Sometimes people have so many different goals
that go in this direction, that direction and they
never reach the potential of one particular avenue
that they're going so, I mean throughout my career
I've been very involved in different businesses
and marketing and foundation but my number one priority
is always the game and now my priority's changed so
I can focus on some other things.
- [Announcer] Popped up short center, Jeter out.
Canole and did Jeter catch it?
Wow, what a miraculous catch!
(crowd cheering)
unbelievable.
- I've always focused on work ethic.
You know I've always been taught there's always going to
be someone that's better, but there's no reason
why someone should outwork you.
And I think that applies not only to sports but it applies
to anything that you try to do.
You have to work harder than other people if you want
to be the best.
Never be satisfied.
You know I am never satisfied I always try to think of
what I could do next to be better.
- [Announcer] Giel into left field well hit.
Track, wall, off the top of the wall into third is Perez,
they bring him around, throw to the plate by Jeter,
quick throw into Novo.
- You have to win here, that's the bottom line is
what have you done lately?
You know we were able to accomplish a lot of good things
early on, we've been post season every year so far but
the bottom line is when you're competing you want to win.
I mean that's why you're out there.
Finishing second, finishing third, going to the
post season's not good enough.
I think everyone should have that mentality,
I mean you go into a season, you win a championship,
or it doesn't mean anything.
- Have you always had that kind of mentality,
even before you got to New York?
Or did it - No question, no I was younger
I always wanted, my daddy used to beat me at
everything we did.
- [Interviewer] He wouldn't let you win?
- No, no he wouldn't let me win so now I don't let
anyone else win.
So I've always had that mentality, it's pointless
from my point of view if you're competing and you don't win.
(crowd cheering)
- [Announcer] And the two oh.
There it is!
(crowd cheering)
for 72 years, Lou Gherig has been the Yankee's all time
hits leader, now it's Derek Jeter.
- Family they're the ones that, I have a very close family.
They've always been very supportive, more importantly
they've always been very honest.
I think a lot of times people in general like to surround
themselves with people that are going to tell them that
everything they're doing is right.
You know what I mean, you need people around you
that are going to tell you you're doing wrong.
And my parents are very very honest, even if I don't want
to hear something, they'll tell me, they'll give me
their opinion so I'd say family is most important and
then secondly your friends.
It's the same thing I think your friends are the ones
that are going to help ya, they're the ones that are going to
support you, at times they're going to be the ones that
get you in trouble, so you have to make sure that
you surround yourself with a good group of friends.
- [Announcer] And no one long, a high pop, off third foul,
(inaudible) and Jeter there, Jeter makes the catch
and falls into the crowd.
And he's out.
They gave him the out call and Grosser now throws
to second, and now time is called, and I don't know
what the ruling is.
Chavez went to second 'cause Jeter was in the crowd.
And Jeter now climbs out of the crowd, but Derek Jeter
made an unbelievable catch and as he hit with his waist
on the railing down the third base line, he back flipped
into the crowd and held onto the ball, what a catch
by Derek Jeter.
What a play.
- I learned something from watching Mr. Torrey for all
these years, you know you always hear the phrase you
treat everyone the same, well that's not correct,
you treat everyone fairly.
You try to be the same every day, you don't come and
hold your head up high when things are going well and
things are going bad you find a way to hide.
Leadership I don't think is something that's appointed,
I think it's something that's earned.
(crowd cheering)
- [Announcer] Jeter hits it to right, back at the wall,
It's over, Yankees win and the series is tied.
I have a lot of confidence, I think you have to have
confidence in your ability.
The stronger you are mentally I think the better
you're going to perform so I've always had confidence
any time I'm in a situation I tend to look back and
think back to times that I had success and I think
that's helped me out throughout.
("Empire State of Mind" - Jay-Z)
- [Announcer] And toward the hole, Jeter backhands from
the outfield.
(crowd cheering)
Man what a play!
- I'm fans of athletes from all different sports, I've
never tried to emulate anyone else.
I've tried to be myself.
I've learned a lot of watching guys, especially guys
when I was younger.
But I think in terms of leadership, I think leadership
is viewed differently by different people, I mean there's
people who lead by example, there's people that are vocal
leaders, people that do a little bit of both.
I think you just have to be who you are.
- How would you categorize your leadership?
- Uh a little bit of both.
I really try to take the time to get to know the people
that I'm leading, I think that's most important.
I don't think you walk around as a self proclaimed leader.
I think if you do things the right way, you're honest
with people, people may tend to follow but I don't
put on a show I don't do things in front of the camera.
I've had plenty of conversations with teammates behind
closed doors, you know I've always heard you're not vocal,
he's just lead by example but how would people know unless
they were behind closed doors?
So I have no problem with that but like I said I think
the most important aspect of leadership is getting
to know the people that you're leading.
- [Announcer] (inaudible) you're not going to run you're not
going to hit, you got to wait for a gapper.
(crowd cheering)
down the right field line,
Piazzi on his way to third, and they're going to lead to
believe, the (inaudible)
(crowd cheering)
Derek Jeter, with one of the most unbelievable plays
you will ever see by a shortstop.
- [Interviewer] What's your message to kids nowadays that
are playing sports whether it's baseball or any sport,
what's your message to the youth of today?
Have fun playing, you know I think kids nowadays that
specialize in one particular sport at such an early age
you know when I was younger, we used to go outside
and play every game.
Now you don't really see kids outside playing.
They're all inside playing video games.
Which there's a time and a place for everything,
but I say go out and play as many sports as you can,
be active and enjoy yourself, have fun.
You can't lose sight of the fact that it is a game,
you're supposed to enjoy yourself.
- [Announcer] Meek deals.
Base hit to left field.
Here comes Richardson, here's the throw from Ortegas,
Richardson is safe!
Derek Jeter ends his final game with a walk off single.
Derek Jeter, where fantasy becomes reality.
Did you have any doubt?
- How was Dave Winfield an inspiration?
Dave was, for those of you who didn't know, I think he's
the only athelete to be drafted and called three sports.
For anyone here who thinks they've ever been an athlete,
you can't compare to Dave.
But he was an inspiration maybe because he was one
of the first athletes to start his own foundation.
That's the idea the inspiration of my own foundation,
because when I was younger I read up on Dave, I wanted
to be like him.
(crowd cheering)
- [Announcer] One two.
He loops out to left field, it'll be a tough play,
Jeter on the run, makes the play.
And flies into the stands!
Oh what a play by Derek Jeter!
(crowd cheering)
Wow, Jeter really banged himself up.
- [Commentator] You can see the redness in his face,
he caught the bar on that dive.
What a play!
- You're going to struggle, that's the bottom line, I don't
care how good you are, you're going to fail I mean you
fail seven out of 10 times, you go to the Hall of Fame
you know what I mean.
I was talking to a group of my leaders once and this was
right around the time I got three thousand hits and I said
well I have three thousand hits, but I've gotten out
seven thousand times, you know what I mean?
(laughing)
It's not funny.
(laughter)
I don't think it's funny but you get out quite a bit,
so I've always just tried to remember the good times and
you have to have very short memory and you have to stay
positive, but I don't care what career you're in
you're going to fail.
You're going to have tough times you know, people always
look at people when they're successful and they assume
they just woke up and they ended up in that position
but there's a lot of speed bumps along the way, it's
just your job to try to make that speed bump not
be a road block, you know what I mean?
But you have to learn from your mistakes and move on
and stay positive and mistakes I think you can learn more,
I always tend to learn more from people's failures
than from their success.
I think you have that approach.
(crowd cheering)
("Empire State of Mind" - JayZ)
(crowd cheering)
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