Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.
— Christian Yelich
I think expectations are a good thing. As a player, you should embrace them and not shy away from them.
Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.
It's pretty ridiculous how nice people are in Milwaukee. It's like you're a member of everyone's family or something.
After the games, you know, go on Twitter and stuff, 'Hey, do you know you look like Pete Davidson?' Like, yeah, I get it every night.
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.
That's basically what you're going out trying to do every night - help the team win.
You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when you're playing at home.
I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.
You always want to play at a high level.
It's all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.
I think the biggest thing is just focusing on the day-to-day, your routine, not getting caught up in the future or the past and just being right there and focusing on what you have to do that day or that night to help your team win.
My favorite player growing up was actually Jeter.
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.
You want to get everything out of this game. You want to experience as much of it as there is to offer, because you never how long you're going to get to do it. It's short.
One game at a time - just win one game at a time.
Having your competitiveness and your desire as an athlete called into question is, for sure, frustrating.
You only have such a short time to play baseball in your career. Whether you play for five years or 15 years, it's a short time in your life, and I think everybody wants to win.
All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.
You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.
I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.
I've got two younger brothers.
I had a lot of friends, family friends, that had season tickets, and we'd all go when we were little kids. And you'd go after you played your own baseball game and change out of your uniform in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium to go put on street clothes and go watch the game.
It's always nice to be honored among your peers.
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.
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.'
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.
It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.
The win is the biggest thing.
You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.
Sometimes, change is a good thing.
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.
If you want something, you've got to take it.
It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.
You realize it's a business and that teams are going to do what's best for them. That's how it is. That's what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.
As long as everybody's doing what they need to to get ready to play each night, we don't have a problem.
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.
I'm just excited for the fresh start and the new opportunity and to be a part of the Brewers.
You never think of being in that conversation for the triple crown. You don't even dream about that. It's a dumb dream. Get real.
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.
It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.
Every game matters.
You want to help the team win and contribute any way possible.
I think your expectations as a player are always high. No matter how high the expectations are from the outside, from media, from fans, wherever, you hold yourself to a high standard and understand what you are capable of.
It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.
At the end of the day, it's about winning games.
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.
I was the first person in my family to play baseball.
If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.
Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player.
