A biography for Bryce Harperhasn’t been written yet.
“Baseball needs more superstars.”
“I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.”
“If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.”
“I expect perfection from myself.”
“I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.”
“When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.”
“Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.”
“When I hit the ball, I do want to hurt it.”
“Seriously, it takes me, like, 30 minutes to do my hair before a game.”
“I eat ice cream all the time.”
“I love being around my family.”
“Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.”
“Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.”
“I want my teammates to know I have their backs.”
“I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.”
“D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.”
“The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'”
“I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.”
“I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.”
“There's nobody as sexy as Robinson Cano in the box. I had a coach, Chris Sheff, who always told me to be as sexy as you can in the box.”