I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.Collection: Best
When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.Collection: Truth
Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.
If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that.
I am comfortable talking about everything because I think you can't hide it. I can't hide what I'm doing. I can't lie to people when they see something.
I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.
I love this game. I love to have fun. You're playing a sport that you've loved since you were a kid, you get paid for it, and even if you're 0-for-20 or 0-for-30, you still have fun.
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.
I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.
Days off always help. Even if people don't like it when they give you a day off, you've got to take a day off because sometimes you've got to clear your mind.
The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.
God blessed me with this talent, so why would I not want to not play? I want to play every single game.
When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.