Alfonso Soriano Quotes

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's still a small city. To come from there, to work with Will. i. am... it's like, 'What happened?! What did I do right?'

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

He slides into second with a stand up double.

My agent called me and said, 'You're going to be on the cover of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'' I was like, 'Are you serious?' It's unbelievable. Dream come true. I was yelling into the phone. I was super excited.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

Whether football or board games, I love to win.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

It's a privilege to be an All-Star for the second straight year.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport