Prince Fielder Quotes

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

My dad was a professional footballer before I was alive. When I was growing up, he was the one who coached and mentored me and helped me to become what I am today. Without his coaching and without his insight and the days and the hours that he put in with me, I wouldn't be the player that I am today.

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.