Ben Zobrist Quotes

I try to look up as quickly as possible, try to read the situation, but football is so quick, it's just a split-second, and then you decide.

Outfield to infield is the most jarring because in the outfield, you have much more time to throw.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

The truly great players have this advantage over the rest of the international elite, gifted though those others are: they have the ability to slow down a ball travelling at 90mph, to move before others can, to make the world adjust to their rhythm rather than the other way round.

I haven't had many problems adapting to the Premier League.

It was somewhere in Ohio - Cedar Point or something like that - one of those thrill rides. A few cars up, someone's sunglasses had fallen off, and we were on one of those corkscrew parts, and I saw sunglasses and just instinctively grabbed them right out of the air. I was like, 'Oh, my reaction time is really good. This is going well.'

I catch the ball. You throw the ball, I catch it. You throw it close to me, I catch it. If you make me do something crazy to catch, I still catch it.

Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.

Every single pitcher is making changes every single start. You can talk to any pitcher about this.

I am someone, as a cricketer, who feels it's very important to be able to adapt quickly to the situation.

As far as my athletic ability, I can pretty much do it all. You can put me at linebacker and I'll do a good job.

To be a great NFL player, you have to know what your opponent is doing, not just opposite your position but what they're doing all over the field. All the contingencies.

I think my biggest thing is learning when to hit which serve when, not doing the exact same thing over and over. Because O.K., great, it's 120 miles per hour, but they're standing right there, and they just block it back.

With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.

I don't worry about infield shifts at all - you play where you're gonna play. I'm just gonna pitch my game.

I became stiff as a safety, and so I had to learn to move like a corner and think like a corner.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays.

We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.

I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.