Yadier Molina Quotes

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

I'm a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it's different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

It's good when you're out there on a tennis court. There's nowhere to hide. It's all you, tactically, physically, mentally.

As I always say - you have no feelings when you are on the pitch. You are there to play, to give the best for your team.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I'm trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.

Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

If it's a card game, or it's a preseason game, or it's a regular season game, I just go out there to try to win. For me, that's all I know how to do it and I'll never change that.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

Dallas was top-notch professional and they wanted to win every game.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.