Motivation Quote by Bert Campaneris

There is something almost disarmingly plain about Campaneris saying “Really exciting” twice, and that plainness is the point. He’s not performing eloquence; he’s registering magnitude. For a Latin American shortstop who broke in during an era when MLB clubhouses could be casually hostile to nonwhite, non-American players, “the Yankees” aren’t just another uniform. They’re the sport’s main symbol factory: pinstripes, championships, the aura that turns ordinary games into national events. The repetition reads like someone searching for language big enough to match the cultural weight and coming up with the simplest word he can trust.

The specific intent is gratitude without grandstanding. Athletes often learn to speak in polished clichés; Campaneris’s emphasis goes the other direction, toward sincerity. Doubling “Really exciting” is both an amplifier and a tell: it suggests the memory still lands in his body before it lands in his sentences. Subtext-wise, it carries an immigrant’s or outsider’s recognition of arrival. You don’t repeat yourself when you’re merely pleased; you repeat yourself when you’re still trying to believe your own luck.

Context matters, too. Campaneris was already a World Series champion and a star with the A’s; he didn’t need the Yankees to validate his talent. What he’s acknowledging is the institution’s mythic pull, how even accomplished players can feel their career story re-edited by proximity to baseball’s most famous brand. The line is small, but it reveals how power works in sports: not only through money and wins, but through symbols that make grown professionals sound, briefly, like kids.