"No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good"
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The phrase “watching from a place up in heaven here today” does quiet double duty. It’s spiritual, but it’s also practical stagecraft: it turns a public ceremony into a family room, shrinking the distance between the podium and his past. By insisting they’re present, Murray sidesteps the finality of loss and replaces it with accountability. He’s not basking; he’s reporting in.
The most telling move is the shift from “me” to “all their kids.” He frames his success as a family outcome, not a personal escape velocity. That plural matters, especially coming from an athlete whose era prized stoicism and self-containment. “Doing good” is deliberately unglamorous: no talk of legacy, greatness, or destiny. It’s a blue-collar moral metric, suggesting his parents’ real standard wasn’t trophies but stability, decency, and staying grounded despite fame.
In that restraint is the subtext: the biggest win isn’t baseball immortality; it’s living in a way that would make the people who raised you feel they didn’t waste their love.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Murray, Eddie. (n.d.). No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-one-was-more-important-than-my-mom-and-dad-i-121692/
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Murray, Eddie. "No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-one-was-more-important-than-my-mom-and-dad-i-121692/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/no-one-was-more-important-than-my-mom-and-dad-i-121692/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.





