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My main focus is, 'What can I do today to help the team win the ballgame?' You have those blinders on. It helps you focus.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

I think it was like, 'I don't look like you, Mom. I don't look like you, Dad. Like, what's going on here?' They just kind of told me I was adopted. I was like, 'OK, that's fine with me.'

My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn't matter if it's the first game of the year or it's the last game of the year.

When you come to a game, it's supposed to be fun for the players and the fans.

When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

When I'm lifting heavy, doing squats, and doing upper-body workouts, it's mostly about core and stability. But I'll still do deadlifts. I also do tire workouts with these big 600-pound tires, flipping them and stuff like that.

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.

If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.

When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I went to pro ball, it would be a little bit better.' Now that I look back on it, I made the right choice.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

Even in the Minor Leagues, I thought you have to go out and earn a spot. Nothing is ever given to you.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

Sometimes you've got to tip your cap when they're painting stuff on the corner. But you can't give up, got to keep battling and make some adjustments.

I've just got to stay patient, take my walks when I can, hunt the mistakes, and get on base.

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

Just being in a video game is an honor, and being on the cover, I can't really describe it.

If I'm making consistent contact, even if they're outs or right at somebody, if I'm just making consistent contact, I'm happy.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

I just like music.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

If I'm sitting at home playing video games, and I've got a couple of minutes to myself before bed, I'm listening to music and putting a couple of playlists together. I'm passionate about music.

They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section and call it Judge's Chambers and give them little judge outfits, and we'll see what happens. I think it turned out great.