Top 50 Aaron Judge Quotes

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

I think it was like, ‘I don’t look like you, Mom. I don’t look like you, Dad. Like, what’s going on here?’ They just kind of told me I was adopted. I was like, ‘OK, that’s fine with me.’

I’ve always had that mindset of, ‘OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don’t get too high, don’t get too low – just enjoy it.’ Don’t ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I’m not going to an amusement park, I’m going to a baseball field.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

If someone throws you a good slider, you’re not going to hit it. You’ve got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

I do a lot of planks. I feel like the plank is the most underrated core workout; that’s one of my go-to moves.

My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.

I have a short time to play this game. I’m trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

As a kid growing up in California, I collected autographs.

People strike out. I strike out a lot – it happens. Just got to keep working.

If I’m sitting at home playing video games, and I’ve got a couple of minutes to myself before bed, I’m listening to music and putting a couple of playlists together. I’m passionate about music.

Fighting for a job – that’s been my mindset every Spring Training.

Music, I feel like, affects people’s moods.

You’re always still trying to win a job. That’s everyone’s mindset: come in here and fight for your job, win a job.

This is a crazy game we play. You’re going to have those times you can’t get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.

My dad told me, ‘If you’re going to go out there and play baseball, or you’re going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.’ He didn’t just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.

I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.

Everything I do, I’m always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I’m playing music. When I’m showering, I’ve got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

The biggest thing is, you don’t hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That’s what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

I just try and keep everything simple.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It’s a thinking man’s game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

During the season, I usually work out two or three times a week. I’ll do a full-body workout after games. I plan it out the day of.

When I’m lifting heavy, doing squats, and doing upper-body workouts, it’s mostly about core and stability. But I’ll still do deadlifts. I also do tire workouts with these big 600-pound tires, flipping them and stuff like that.

I’d rather be in a good position in the playoffs and holding up a World Series trophy than holding up an MVP trophy.

One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don’t think I really need to go out there and do it again.

If I know it’s going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.

I’m not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

I think that is one thing I’ve picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

That’s what it’s all about – postseason baseball.

Ever since I was a little kid, that intrigued me. The game within the game was the biggest thing. A lot of people don’t see the little things we do within a game.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

I know I wouldn’t be a New York Yankee if it wasn’t for my mom: the guidance she gave me as a kid growing up, knowing the difference from right and wrong, how to treat people and how to go the extra mile and put in extra work, all that kind of stuff.

The ups and downs, that’s baseball life. That’s what I live for, play for.

The New York Yankees’ organization – they train us well from the get-go. They tell us how to handle everything.

If I’m making consistent contact, even if they’re outs or right at somebody, if I’m just making consistent contact, I’m happy.

If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike – maybe it’s a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike – and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they’re yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

That’s why you get three of them. Say you get one that you don’t think is a strike, and they call it on you: that’s why you get two more.

That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you’ve been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you’re going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don’t really feel it.

Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There’s always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day.

I’ve just got to stay patient, take my walks when I can, hunt the mistakes, and get on base.

You can never come into the spring feeling like you’ve got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone’s going to pass you up.

I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.

You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.

I really don’t like splitting my workouts into lower body one day, upper body the next day – that makes me I feel like I’m working out every day, and I feel like I’m more tired during the season than I need to be.

One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just… the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.

That’s why we play. That’s why we train. That’s why we do everything in the offseason. It is to win a World Series.

When you come to a game, it’s supposed to be fun for the players and the fans.