Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

As a player, I don't want to come off the field.

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

I just feel like the way that I play, you know, I'm such a patient runner that a lot of people look at me as slow. But I'm not a slow guy.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

I don't mind walking guys as long as I don't give up runs.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

You can deal with a little pain. It's just about making sure you can throw the ball good enough to go out there and help your team.

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.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.