Bryce Harper Quotes

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

I understand now the different games and the different approaches that you need to take at different times, with different styles of play.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

You want to play a whole game, but in the preseason you've got to be smart.

I have to make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

When we're up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don't sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in - I expect that I and my team will be smart.

I've got to be smarter with the football.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

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

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.