Top 35 Christian Yelich Quotes

You’re trying to improve every year. And you’re trying to make improvements on what you learn about yourself, when you’re successful or struggle. You try to minimize those stretches. And you realize what you do when you’re successful, and you try and lengthen those.

At the end of the day, it’s about winning games.

Sometimes, change is a good thing.

I don’t really look at numbers. I couldn’t tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.

Once you’ve had success, I think you can go one of two ways. You can either have that success and go downhill, or you can use it to build off of it and continue going upward.

I think I’m pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

You always want to play at a high level.

Every game matters.

One game at a time – just win one game at a time.

For me, it’s different every year. Some years, it takes me a while to feel comfortable again, to feel like I’m ready to go. Other years, it clicks real fast. Sometimes, it just takes one game or one swing to feel like, ‘OK, I’m back.’

That’s basically what you’re going out trying to do every night – help the team win.

Miami will always be special to me.

Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you’re going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you’re still really young, they think that’s what you’re going to be forever.

No one was like, ‘Here’s how you swing.’ It was just like, ‘Let’s go hit and figure it out along the way.’ I always kind of figured it out.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.

I’ve got two younger brothers.

You want to help the team win and contribute any way possible.

The win is the biggest thing.

It’s definitely different than living in Los Angeles or Miami Beach, but Milwaukee is still a great city in its own right. As far as the baseball goes, it’s been everything and more than I thought it was going to be.

As long as everybody’s doing what they need to to get ready to play each night, we don’t have a problem.

I think you just prepare the way you’ve always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.

I’m really thankful for the opportunity the Marlins gave me. They drafted me in 2010 and gave me a chance to play in the big leagues. I made lifelong friends there, and I’ve got a lot of great memories.

I tell it how it is. I’m laid back.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

At the end of the day, when you’re trying to do good, that’s all that matters. Whether it’s in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

Obviously, you want to bring as much attention to the game as possible and grow baseball as much as you can. It’s important. It comes with the responsibility that being a league M.V.P. comes with.

Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need to balance it and take it in stride, but at the same time, be mindful of your time and prioritize everything and what is most beneficial.

It’s all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.

I’ve definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn’t grow up too far from the stadium. That’s where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

My favorite player growing up was actually Jeter.

It’s one thing to make the big leagues, but it’s another thing to make it to an all-star game.

Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.

I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there’s a lot of people probably hoping that I would say that because that’s just the trend in baseball.

All you can ask for is the chance to win.