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I was a guy who came to work every day. I was there. When my manager got to the field at 12, I felt like there was no reason for him to ever wonder if I was playing. For me, that's a big deal. I teach that to my kids.
Prince Fielder
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Prince Fielder
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: May 9
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It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered.
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Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watching my kids' games.
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Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.
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Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.
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I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one of us could hit one more home run? Obviously, it was supposed to go that way. It's a pretty cool thing, I guess.
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Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.
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When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
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I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.
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We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are.
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I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.
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I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.
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You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.
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If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.
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Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.
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I have a food show.It's not just baseball people. It's a mixture of baseball people, actors, musicians, chefs and whatnot. They bring out different dishes, and at the end of the show, I give the one I like the most the Fielder's choice. It's good TV.
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I'm still working out. It keeps me feeling good about things.
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I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.
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I've always said, You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out? .
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I'm just living a normal life - a regular life, as people would call it. I'm enjoying it.
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Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.
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