Manny Machado Quotes

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.

In a Congressional Hearing, when the red light of the television camera came on it had the effect of a full moon on weir wolves.

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed to get your full thought out. A lot of it is about having a 30-second sound bite.

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.

I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.

The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.

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

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.