A biography for Christian Yelichhasn’t been written yet.
“I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.”
“All you can ask for is the chance to win.”
“After the games, you know, go on Twitter and stuff, 'Hey, do you know you look like Pete Davidson?' Like, yeah, I get it every night.”
“You always want to play at a high level.”
“I tell it how it is. I'm laid back.”
“I think you just prepare the way you've always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.”
“My favorite player growing up was actually Jeter.”
“The win is the biggest thing.”
“As long as everybody's doing what they need to to get ready to play each night, we don't have a problem.”
“You're trying to improve every year. And you're trying to make improvements on what you learn about yourself, when you're successful or struggle. You try to minimize those stretches. And you realize what you do when you're successful, and you try and lengthen those.”
“I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action. That's never how the game is played.”
“At the end of the day, it's about winning games.”
“You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.”
“Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player.”
“It's definitely different than living in Los Angeles or Miami Beach, but Milwaukee is still a great city in its own right. As far as the baseball goes, it's been everything and more than I thought it was going to be.”
“Everyone wants to pencil you in as the kind of player that you're going to be after a few years in the big leagues. When you're still really young, they think that's what you're going to be forever.”
“It's pretty ridiculous how nice people are in Milwaukee. It's like you're a member of everyone's family or something.”
“You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when you're playing at home.”
“I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.”
“Learn the league, learn the pitchers, learn how they're going to go after you.”