Mookie Betts Quotes

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

I always wanted to become a football player, and I thank my parents, as they helped me so much to realise this dream. They always supported me on my path.

I wouldn't have become the player I have without my father.

My father was a big influence. He kept telling me to pursue football, always. He always encouraged me and my brother.

My dad used to take me to training in bangers, and we used to push the car. He would do whatever it would take, so I owe my family.

I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.

It was my mom who pushed me. My mom actually pushed my dad to train me. My dad knows what it takes to play at this level and be a really good basketball player, and he just wanted me to make the choice for myself.

There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons.

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.