Mookie Betts Quotes

Mookie Betts

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 7, 1992

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.

Mookie Betts

Fastball middle-middle. You can't miss that pitch.

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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.'

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However it is I get on base, or whatever happens, happens.

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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.

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I think my senior year in high school was when I started wearing Jordans. It was our team rule that we had to play in them so that's when I got - not introduced to them, but got into it. Through the minors I started collecting some, just to wear, and that's when I told myself I want to become a Jordan athlete and did all I could to do it.

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Pretty much all bowlers are nice dudes.

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I don't hit home runs in BP.

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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.

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I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.

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Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

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Yeah, there's always room for improvement.

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I always listen to music.

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I just want to put on a uniform - whoever it is.

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I think the most important thing is that World Series.

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I listen to R&B and Hip Hop.

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I'm not a big country guy even though I'm from Nashville. I like some songs, but I wouldn't turn on a country radio station or anything.

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I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

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I just try to do whatever I can to win the game.

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We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

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