Cody Bellinger Quotes

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I've been in the States and fought before. When I'm in that changing room, I'll feel as if I've been in that situation before. Obviously I'm going to have to deal on the biggest stage, and it's the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, but it doesn't faze me.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

There are very few things that surprise me.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

It's definitely a dream come true playing for the Red Sox.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.

I feel like five rounds is nothing for me.

You can't go out and press. That's when you're going to make mistakes. Just act like you've done it before.