Alex Bregman

“I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.”

“I understand that it's a business, but I feel like good business would be wanting to make a player who performed at a high level on your team happy and want to feel like he wanted to be kept and feel like they wanted him to play here forever.”

“It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.”

“I can only control what I can control, which is taking care of my business here and working hard every single day, and eventually that time will come.”

“I don't find that much wrong with baseball.”

“Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes.”

“You can't ever get too high or too low.”

“I'm really slow.”

“To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the thing I'm most proud of.”

“That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.”

“I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.”

“You watch all those moments that Jeter had for the Yankees. You can tell by the fans' reaction how much he meant to them and how much he meant to the city, how much he meant to the game of baseball.”

“We're a big community, a big family here in Houston.”

“I feel like I have so much to improve on.”

“One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.”

“Being able to compete and try and win games is the coolest feeling.”

“You can be on top of the world one day and the next day you can go 0-for-4 with four strikeouts.”

“You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.”

“I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.”

“I want to be able to drive the ball to all fields.”