Top 30 Bryce Harper Quotes

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I want to get my eight hours and be able to eat good meals and not be sluggish or anything like that. My body is my temple, and I’ve always thought that.

I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. ‘Overrated.’ ‘You suck.’ I’ll just do something to shut them up, like, ‘I’ll show you.’

My body feels pretty unbelievable.

You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

When I hit the ball, I do want to hurt it.

I don’t wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it’s my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you’ve got to respect that it’s not like baseball.

I can squat 405. I’m proud of that – that’s one of my favorites.

If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have a life.

Baseball needs more superstars.

Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It’s something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You’re just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.

It’s funny to me because everyone says I’m injury prone. That’s hilarious to me because I’ve never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

Playing football, I’m getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That’s how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

People say, ‘Weren’t you deprived of your childhood?’ No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

I eat ice cream all the time.

I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody’s a pretty good guy in the UFC.

Sleep is huge. That’s your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it’s such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I’m going into second base.

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard – I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

I don’t want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

If I had to describe myself in one word, ‘Hercules.’

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn’t dress up or anything – just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That’s how I’ve always been my whole life.

I’d rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

It’s not like I’m out eating McDonald’s and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night – baked chicken, fish – she cooks a great meal every single night.

I like eating the right way, doing things the right way. I never had to have my dad come and say, ‘Hey, you have to get back to the gym’ or, ‘Hey, you’re eating wrong.’

When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

I’m not trying to fit in with nobody. I’m just me.

I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don’t like BYU.

I’ve always talked to the media. I’m pretty respectful to the media.