Manny Machado Quotes

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

I am not one of the best midfielders in the world or something like that.

My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.

I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.

I think there are still better players than me.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

I've made mistakes in my life before, but I'm not that person. At the end of the day, it's not just me trying to prove I'm a perfect kid. I've made mistakes like everybody else, but I can show a different side of my personality you may not thought I had.

I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I think when I started playing against some of the best guys on the AAU circuit, I started to look at myself and say, 'I am one of these guys.'

I played a lot of right field with Tampa.

When I started doing contests, I didn't look at it as a sport, but when I realized I was looking at it that way, I had to acknowledge it as a sport.

The older you get, you might think you have it all figured out, but you are never too old to work on fundamentals. You can't take anything for granted in this business.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.

I honestly don't see anything that extraordinary about my game.

I've been put into a lot of situations that could be stressful. That's really helped me mature, both as a performer and as a man.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.