I love Boston.
Everything I played, I kind of found a way to be pretty good at. My mom always said, 'If you're not good at something, then don't do it.'
Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.
Obviously, I'm coordinated and whatnot.
You make a 2-10 split pretty often when you bowl as much as I do.
My personal style definitely developed over time. I thought I used to look good in a T-shirt and jeans and a decent pair of shoes. Now versatility is key for me.
I can pull off a range of outfits from nice, edgy suits to more rugged, casual looks. Your look one day can be totally different than the next day, and for me, it's all about owning that.
I was born into wearing hats - it's a family thing - and I wear hats all the time.
I just try to be the same guy each and every day and just do something when we're hitting or make a nice defensive play or run the bases. Just trying to be consistent in that way.
I'm just trying to affect the game in some way whenever I get an opportunity. If that's stealing a base, making a catch, beating out a double play, whatever it may be.
I just kind of want to be me.
I try and affect the game in every way.
I've been bowling for so long, and I really, really enjoy it.
I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.
I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.
I've been blessed with everything I have, and I might as well share it.
I'm confident in my abilities and confident to know what kind of player I am. I've also been educated on the business side of it, getting your value.
Some people kind of get lost in what everyone else is doing and not pay attention to themselves, and I think I'm one where I pay attention to myself and can set the example for the people coming up.
You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.
As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.
You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.
It's kind of tough as you're playing you kind of wonder what is going to happen to you as you go through arbitration or as you go through free agency.
Even though this is a business you do have people here that you're with every day, like your family. You want to go play for them and you want to win with them. You have to find a way to do that but understand that there is a business side to it. You have to find a way to understand.
You can put me on a plane now and I can go anywhere and just by talking having one or two conversations I can have an idea where I am in the U.S. or whatever.
Just because you go to free agency doesn't mean you don't want to be somewhere. It's just a part of the business.
I'm not a huge vocal guy.
I like leading by example.
R.B.I.' is such a playable game. You can pick the game up and play right away without a crazy long learning curve, and that's important for the casual fan and gamer.
No matter what I say, people are going to have their opinions and there is nothing I can do about that.
I grew up in bowling alleys.
You have to have sound mechanics to repeat the same delivery each time. That's the hard part. Since I don't bowl all the time I'm not consistent with my mechanics.
Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.
I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.
Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.
I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.
The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.
When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.
I don't hit home runs in BP.
Every game I'm out there, we're all trying to affect the game in some way.
I've been playing golf for a little while and I can't get over the 85 hump. It doesn't matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I'm going to end up around 85.
I just want to be that role model that the kids can look up to, and say, 'I want to be like him. I want to be just like Mookie Betts.'
I see myself as the product of hard work.
You don't want to sell yourself short.
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.
There wasn't a favorite team or player in the Betts household. I played baseball, day in, day out, and learned the game my own way alongside my parents - Willie and Diana.
When you start rushing into things, that's when you get some deals that may not be the right ones.
I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.
Pretty much all bowlers are nice dudes.
Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.