"Fresh cut grass. dragged dirt, ring of a bat, a diving catch, a blocked ball, sweating, bleeding, diving into home. Not a bad way to spend a few hours. " "Sports are for everyone. Baseball is for athletes." "When I step into the batter’s box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win." "Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have."