Sports legend Johnny Damon, 51, is pouring everything he learned on the baseball field into being an entrepreneur, but he will always remember his game days. Damon is known for helping the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees win the World Series. “As an athlete, you have to be a great teammate,” Damon told The Epoch Times.
“You go to battle every single day, and if you all don’t get along, the team will suffer.” His professional baseball career started in 1995 and ended in 2012. During that time, Damon is credited with helping break the “Curse of the Bambino,” a superstition of bad luck based on the late Babe Ruth being traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees in 1920.
“You should always bring your A-game and that’s whether you are an athlete, a parent, a teacher or anything else you do in life so that you won’t have any regrets or complaints,” Damon said. “Bring your best every single moment of every day and you will be happy and successful.” Damon credits his teammates, including David Ortiz and the late Tim Wakefield, for the Red Sox team’s success.
Ortiz is a Dominican-American former professional baseball player who played primarily for the Red Sox, and Wakefield played for the Red Sox for 17 years from 1995 to 2012. Wakefield died in 2023. Each player contributed to the Red Sox’s World Series championship in 2004.
“I had a great team. We all pulled together. We were able to win four games in a row,” Damon said.
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