Mariano Rivera: Playing during steroid era only thing that bothers him about career

By Lachlan Cartwright and Christian Red, New York Daily News

Baseball’s all-time saves leader is retiring with the same class that has underscored his remarkable 19-year career, with Mariano Rivera telling an audience at an ESPN luncheon Thursday that he has never and will never consider the sport he dominated as what defines him.

“This is what I do,” Rivera said at the New York Athletic Club. “Baseball is what I do, not who I am and that’s the difference.” The son of a Panamanian fisherman, who grew up poor and became one of the game’s most decorated players, said the humility he learned as a child molded him into the player he became, and that it was ingrained in him to “respect, help, (and) support” others, always.

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[Photo by Keith Allison]

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