Athlete

Obviously, you want to bring as much attention to the game as possible and grow baseball as much as you can. It's important. It comes with the responsibility that being a league M.V.P. comes with.

It's all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.

I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there's a lot of people probably hoping that I would say that because that's just the trend in baseball.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.

I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.

You never think of being in that conversation for the triple crown. You don't even dream about that. It's a dumb dream. Get real.

After the games, you know, go on Twitter and stuff, 'Hey, do you know you look like Pete Davidson?' Like, yeah, I get it every night.

At the end of the day, it's about winning games.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

You always want to play at a high level.

It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

As long as everybody's doing what they need to to get ready to play each night, we don't have a problem.

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action. That's never how the game is played.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

Miami will always be special to me.

Every game matters.

I think you just prepare the way you've always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.