When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.
Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
There's not much you can complain about - you're a Major League Baseball player; you're getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren't any significant ones.
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.