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— Alex Bregman
In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.
I want to strike out less than 20 times.
I think social media is a great tool if you use it the right way.
The only thing I have control over is working hard and going about my business the right way, and playing the game how I've always played it. Everything else will just take care of itself.
When I look at a season, and it's all said and done, and the thing I look for is, first off, did my team win?
I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.
I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.
The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.
Since I was very little I loved this game.
When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.
Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes.
I witnessed an MVP firsthand in Jose Altuve. I asked him what he did during the offseason, and he said he trains his core.
In order to be great in this game, you have to be good for a really long time, and to be good, you have to constantly win.
I feel like I have so much to improve on.
I'm definitely not satisfied and I always want to do better and learn more and get better.
Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.
My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.
If someone's going to throw me in, I'm not gong to try and hit a ground ball to third, you know? I'm going to try and hit it in the air. If someone's going to throw me away, I'm not going to try and hit a ground ball to second, I'm going to drive it to right-center.
I think there's a lot of trust in being selectively aggressive I guess. Looking for your pitch you can drive, but not swinging if it's not there and not worrying about, 'Oh no, I'm down 0-2.' I feel as comfortable as I do at 0-0. I don't know.
I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the Astros.
To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the thing I'm most proud of.
If we keep continuously putting up good at-bats, the next guy will come through.
I'm really slow.
I just think it's part of life: try to be a good teammate.
I like competing. I like going head to head, the best man wins.
I put my heart and soul into it every single day, to go out there and try and win games for the Astros.
You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.
My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.
If there's somebody pushing you, you're going to be more energized.
We're a big community, a big family here in Houston.
My agent called me and said, 'You're going to be on the cover of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'' I was like, 'Are you serious?' It's unbelievable. Dream come true. I was yelling into the phone. I was super excited.
Really, I think the biggest thing is just playing your game and doing what you do.
It's why we play the game... postseason.
It doesn't matter if we get a hit, a walk, hit by pitch; just trying to grind out at-bats.
In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.
I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.
The Astros are going to be a dynasty.
That's what the game is all about. It's winning.
I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.
Whether I'm 0-for-10 or 10-for-10, every time I walk to the plate I believe I'm going to hit a missile.
It makes everything worth it; every weight that you lifted in the offseason, every swing that you took in the cage. When you feel like you came through for your team, and you see the joy on their faces, there's nothing like it.
My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.
Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don't necessarily chase as much out of the zone.
Everyone who plays this game wants to continue to improve.
I want to be able to drive the ball to all fields.
Winning is the only thing that drives all of us.
It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.
Being able to compete and try and win games is the coolest feeling.
I like that - I like those little nervous jitters.
