Andrew Benintendi Quotes

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

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.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

When you play well, when you perform, you have to show every game that you are that good.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

All my hard work is to win ballgames.

I had to make baseball work. I threw myself into it.

In baseball, it doesn't matter if you're tall, skinny, fat, whatever. If you really have talent and you really love to play, I feel like you can make it.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.