Buster Posey Quotes

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Buster Posey

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : March 27, 1987

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

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As a catcher, you have to put your focus on what you're doing defensively. You learn how to put your at-bats aside if you're struggling.

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It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.

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Any opportunity to be at the All-Star Game is a unique experience. It's an honor and a special time with the other players we don't ordinarily get to spend time with. It's a fun couple of days and something that goes by quickly in my experience. I try to enjoy it.

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The clubhouses are pretty... uh... Outdated. You get pretty crammed in there for three or four days. But it still is one of those places where, for me, I look around and pinch myself just thinking, 'I'm playing at Wrigley field.'

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My parents set high standards. It wasn't okay if you got a B.

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One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

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The reason you play the game is to help the team win.

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I'm ready to play, and hopefully I'm a guy people can come up to and bounce stuff off of - really, be the best teammate I can be.

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If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

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I don't want to look back and say I got to play the game that I love so much and didn't give it everything I have. As simple as that may sound, that's how I feel.

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Hopefully I'm somebody the guys can look at and say, 'He goes about things the right way.'

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I'd rather have a good game defensively before offensively.

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Sometimes when I think you get fatigued, a little extra inflammation in the back and hip, it's harder to move fast and you lose a little bit of bat speed.

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I think a lot of the new age thinking, if you want to call it that, analytics, you have to be open to it.

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Well, anytime you're compared to Derek Jeter, it's the ultimate compliment.

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I'd like to say I'm a thinker. Sometimes I try not to think too much, in certain aspects of the game. But I enjoy being involved in each play on defense.

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I think anybody that has caught before understands the grind of catching, not only the physical, the nicks, the wear and tear of squatting for nine innings night in, day out, but just the mental grind of working a pitching staff. It's demanding.

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It's a long season so you've got to try and focus on each day.

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I don't know if the goal is necessarily to hit the ball in the air; I think when my swing is right it just happens on its own.

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