Derek Jeter Once Expressed Frustration About People Getting Annoyed by His Media Responses

Baseball legend Derek Jeter throughout his playing career has always wanted to keep his personal life separate from his professional one. And he was quite successful at that too. But that did not stop people from asking him questions about gossip and other stuff. 

He either used to give the same answers or didn’t talk much about the stuff he didn’t want to. During the time he played, he never talked much about anything. He only talked where he needed to speak and only spoke about the things he knew won’t be creating any issues for him.

And that annoyed people to the point that Jeter also got to know about it. But he did not let it affect him even one bit. He never talked about anything that would give negativity at all. He wanted to stay positive and did everything he could to stay sane, even if it affected others. 

What did Derek Jeter say about people getting annoyed with him?

The former shortstop, Derek Jeter, said that instead of giving any kind of negativity, he would rather stay silent. And if that annoyed people, he didn’t care about it. Because it was not his job to spread negativity but to stay positive. In his interview with Sports Illustrated, he once talked about his frustration with people constantly getting annoyed at him. 

In his words, “When people are negative a lot, it starts to creep into your mind, and then you start having doubts, and I don’t like that. If there’s another way, show me. My job is to stay positive. My job is to limit distractions. And if you get annoyed by that, I don’t expect you to understand because you’re not in my shoes.”

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To this day, he still does that. He will only ever speak what is necessary of him and will avoid anything that might even have a chance of becoming an issue.

The former shortstop once advised the younger generation!

Jeter, in an interview, once said to the people that the one thing they have to do, no matter what happens, is to learn to deal with failure. Because it is unavoidable. 

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And it will only help in growing further as a person. Therefore, learning to deal with failure will only get them ready for the challenges to come.