Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.
— Mookie Betts
You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.
There wasn't a favorite team or player in the Betts household. I played baseball, day in, day out, and learned the game my own way alongside my parents - Willie and Diana.
I see myself as the product of hard work.
I've been playing golf for a little while and I can't get over the 85 hump. It doesn't matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I'm going to end up around 85.
When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.
Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.
Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.
You have to have sound mechanics to repeat the same delivery each time. That's the hard part. Since I don't bowl all the time I'm not consistent with my mechanics.
No matter what I say, people are going to have their opinions and there is nothing I can do about that.
I like leading by example.
You can put me on a plane now and I can go anywhere and just by talking having one or two conversations I can have an idea where I am in the U.S. or whatever.
You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.
You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.
I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.
I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.
I just kind of want to be me.
Pretty much all bowlers are nice dudes.
I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.
I just want to be that role model that the kids can look up to, and say, 'I want to be like him. I want to be just like Mookie Betts.'
Every game I'm out there, we're all trying to affect the game in some way.
The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It's one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care.
When you're down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?
I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.
I grew up in bowling alleys.
R.B.I.' is such a playable game. You can pick the game up and play right away without a crazy long learning curve, and that's important for the casual fan and gamer.
I'm not a huge vocal guy.
Even though this is a business you do have people here that you're with every day, like your family. You want to go play for them and you want to win with them. You have to find a way to do that but understand that there is a business side to it. You have to find a way to understand.
My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad.
Some people kind of get lost in what everyone else is doing and not pay attention to themselves, and I think I'm one where I pay attention to myself and can set the example for the people coming up.
I've been blessed with everything I have, and I might as well share it.
I've been bowling for so long, and I really, really enjoy it.
I don't want to try and be something I'm not.
In order to be great you have to continue to put in the work.
When you start rushing into things, that's when you get some deals that may not be the right ones.
You don't want to sell yourself short.
I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.
I don't hit home runs in BP.
I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.
This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.
Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.
I have no idea what it is about bowling. It's just a love I have for it. I can't even explain why. Bowling is just fun for me.
Whatever the team takes, whatever it needs, I try to fill that role.
Just because you go to free agency doesn't mean you don't want to be somewhere. It's just a part of the business.
It's kind of tough as you're playing you kind of wonder what is going to happen to you as you go through arbitration or as you go through free agency.
As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.
I'm confident in my abilities and confident to know what kind of player I am. I've also been educated on the business side of it, getting your value.
I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.
I try and affect the game in every way.
