I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.
— Alex Bregman
You grow up dreaming about playing in the World Series since you're a little kid. I remember the days in the back yard with my parents playing whiffle ball, saying, 'Hey, it's Game 7 of the World Series, are you gonna win or are you gonna lose?'
I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.
There are a lot of things I want to accomplish in this game. Winning is right there at the top.
If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.
This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.
That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.
You've got to want to compete with the best of the best and when the pressure's on.
You're going to make errors.
When I think about the future and how I can make a difference in the world, I want to be able to use my love of the game of baseball to be a good example and a good person.
I'm super thankful to the Astros fans and all the fans across the country.
You grow up always thinking you'd be in pressure situations all the time, and that's why I put pressure on myself in practice, so when those situations come in the game I feel I can be successful.
I feel like I'm ready to contribute at the highest level possible.
One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.
I'm just trying to put together good at-bats and do anything I can to help contribute.
It's always fun to compete against the best.
I just want to be treated fairly for my performance.
That's what makes baseball the best. Nothing matters but winning.
I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.
I don't find that much wrong with baseball.
It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.
Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We're going to fight and grind every single pitch and try and do anything we can to help win games.
You can't ever get too high or too low.
I'll play wherever they want me to play -anywhere on the field. Do anything to help the team win. Whether that's playing left field or third base or wherever, I don't care.
I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts the day the right way.
We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.
I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.
It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.
Having pressure is a privilege.
I want to meet Brandon Crawford and just pick his brain and figure out what helps him out on the defensive side of the ball.
I'm not going to win games by talking about it. Just by doing it.
You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.
This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.
I understand that it's a business, but I feel like good business would be wanting to make a player who performed at a high level on your team happy and want to feel like he wanted to be kept and feel like they wanted him to play here forever.
Does Tiger Woods tee off at 8 A.M. when he's going to win a Masters? Does Floyd Mayweather fight the first fight of the night? No, he's the main event, right? So the 'Stros need to be playing on prime-time television.
I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.
I never went to the school dance.
It's definitely cool to have fans around the world give their support.
That's all I'm really concerned about - contribute and try to win games.
You can be on top of the world one day and the next day you can go 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.
If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.
You watch all those moments that Jeter had for the Yankees. You can tell by the fans' reaction how much he meant to them and how much he meant to the city, how much he meant to the game of baseball.
At the end of the day, I know I'm a good person, so I'm not worried about anything bad that could happen on the Internet.
I would just like to win. Wherever I need to hit in the lineup, whatever works.
When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.
I can only control what I can control, which is taking care of my business here and working hard every single day, and eventually that time will come.
It's an honor to be able to represent our country, and I'll go out there and play hard for the U.S.A.
I don't care where I play, and wherever I do play, I'll play hard and give everything I got.
Just trying to do anything I can to help the team win and that's it.
I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.
