Alex Bregman Quotes

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

It doesn't really matter who you're playing. You just have to keep going at them.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

The old saying was, 'Boggs never drives in any runs.' I played in 155 games. I led off. That's 155 plate appearance where I come up with nobody on.

How are you gonna score if somebody doesn't drive in the runs?

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

Having a relentless lineup full of professional hitters works on so many levels. It works in terms of pure baseball reasons: if you get on base, you're going to score runs.

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

You just keep working and try to have quality at-bats.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

However it is I get on base, or whatever happens, happens.