Top 50 Trea Turner Quotes

For me, I take a lot of pride in that, and we take a lot of pride in that, being able to play baseball.

I want every player to get as much money as possible, just for the health of the game – if players are getting paid, then the game’s healthy and people are showing up and watching.

It’s funny, I’ve always wanted to work crazy hard.

Some of the biggest compliments you can get are from people who have played the game at the highest level.

I really learned how to steal bases from my coaches my freshman year at NC State.

I’m not a good gift-giver, other than the fact that I like surprising people. I usually give what people ask for but I try to make it seem like I’m not buying it.

I think stolen bases are always a byproduct of doing other things well. Getting on base – you’ve got to get on base a lot, obviously. And you’ve got to be in the right position and your teammates have got to help you out a little bit sometimes.

I do appreciate when players are good.

Hits and runs are the numbers that really impress me. It means you’re contributing a lot to your team by being in the lineup every single day, and scoring runs is how you win games.

You always dream about trying to be the best.

I know as an athlete I want to use the platform for good and make a difference in a positive way. I think I can do that, and I want to do that.

My mom’s always asking me for hits and stolen bases and home runs and different things on Mother’s Day and her birthday.

I’ve hit 1, 2 and surprisingly I’ve hit 3 most of my life. Not that I’m going to be hitting 3, but I feel like those are three really different positions in the lineup. And I feel like I’ve done all of them. I know what’s expected at each one of those, and I feel like you can take that experience away.

I live my life day to day.

It’s always nice to hit a home run, no matter if it’s your first or your last. It’s always fun, especially for me. I don’t hit many.

It’s an honor to get compliments from anybody associated with baseball.

When you prove you can hit, you get tough pitches to hit. And then you got to prove you can take them. And when you prove you can take them, they’ll give you pitches to hit. It’s back and forth, back and forth.

No matter how you use it or what context you are using it in, words hurt.

I just want to play baseball, basically.

I know we’re not going to win every game.

I didn’t get drafted to sit out. I got drafted to play.

I’m trying to go out there and do everything I can to get better.

It’s nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it’s offense or defense, whatever it may be – get some production everywhere.

I was a lot smaller in high school, and guys were a lot bigger and faster than me. I stole some bases in high school, but it wasn’t until my senior year that I started getting faster.

Playing bad isn’t fun.

I don’t want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me.

Acting in general is weird for me, but it’s fun.

For me, that’s the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw you pitches, you’ll be able to drive the ball a little bit better.

Be yourself, you are who you are and be proud of it. And rely on your friends and family.

That is what I always said as I don’t want to be one-dimensional; I don’t want to just hit homers or have to walk or bunt to get on base.

I just want to do my job and have fun and enjoy my teammates, and I don’t need to tell everybody that, oh, this is what I’m doing or this is how good I am.

If the opportunity is there to steal a base, I try to steal it.

Any time you can win going home is great.

You want to travel in a good mood; you don’t want to be mad about a loss.

I hate being told I can’t do something.

I’ve always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter.

I’d love to stay with the Nats.

It’s always special when you receive an award. Up here in the big leagues is special.

I’m not shooting for it, but I’ll take eight straight hits any day of the week.

I don’t want to lead the league in infield hits because, at some point in my career, I can’t get away with it anymore.

You know ‘Talk the talk’ or ‘Walk the walk?’ I just want to walk.

When each and every person has confidence in themselves, it makes all of us better.

I’m a leadoff or a two-hole hitter, contact guy.

We play Amazing Race on New Year’s Eve. My mom or aunt makes a whole list of things that we have to find, and we split up into teams. Sometimes it’s like a Chinese takeout menu or take a picture with a cop, so on New Year’s Eve we’re running around all over the place going into restaurants and different things.

I’d probably be the most unintimidating three-hole hitter in the league at 150 pounds.

It’s always nice to have your name associated with other great players and a record.

I’m not planning on doing anything other than trying to be as best I can.

I’m not scared of it. I’m not shy of it or afraid of it. It’s just funny to think of me as a three-hole hitter.

I’ll pinch-run all day, I’ll play defense all day, it doesn’t matter to me.

I think I’m athletic enough to do anything.