Manny Machado Quotes

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

I'm really bad at baseball.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.