Mookie Betts Quotes

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

You get butterflies when you see all the fans screaming.

When I got to MSG, I had to look around and just take it in. I looked at the crowd and couldn't believe it. Instead of butterflies in my stomach, I had hawks!

Football still gives me butterflies; it still makes me smile.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss.

Soon I will be doing what I love again.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

I waited for my first kiss.

To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.

I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It's spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible - at least, until the other team scores.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

The second I got on stage, it was like, 'Oh my God! I love this! I love this!'

Football is magic for me: it is a special feeling every time I walk out on to the pitch and touch the ball. That is how I would define what magic is.

It takes a lot for me to be excited.

Football gives us moments we can't imagine.

My emotions are strong when I start the season.

I've been out for four months and when you have been out that long you start to miss the game and when you are out there you realise just how much you really do live it and enjoy it.

When people say they aren't nervous, I think they are lying about it. If you are human and you love the game, before any competition you still get those same butterflies in the stomach.