Ben Zobrist

“If you're free of mechanical thoughts and free of knowing that your body and bat are going to be in the right position at the right time, you can freely focus on the ball. It's a great feeling.”

“We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.”

“I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.”

“I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.”

“I might have a great game hitting, but if I'm not having a great game fielding, if I feel like I let a guy get an extra base that I could have stopped, that's something I've got to do better, got to get better at.”

“I didn't think I'd be getting a contract at 34. That wasn't in my mind.”

“A lot of times, if you stay in the present and focus on getting the most out of yourself today, then things work out the way they're supposed to.”

“Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.”

“Outfield to infield is the most jarring because in the outfield, you have much more time to throw.”

“We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.”

“Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.”

“I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.”

“I know what I need to do to prepare myself, and I try to do the best I can to take care of my body and prolong my peak years as a baseball player.”

“When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.”

“I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.”

“When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.”

“When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.”

“Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.”

“It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.”

“I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.”