A biography for Christian Yelichhasn’t been written yet.
“It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.”
“I'm really thankful for the opportunity the Marlins gave me. They drafted me in 2010 and gave me a chance to play in the big leagues. I made lifelong friends there, and I've got a lot of great memories.”
“That's basically what you're going out trying to do every night - help the team win.”
“If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.”
“You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.”
“If you want something, you've got to take it.”
“You want to get everything out of this game. You want to experience as much of it as there is to offer, because you never how long you're going to get to do it. It's short.”
“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.”
“It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.”
“You never think of being in that conversation for the triple crown. You don't even dream about that. It's a dumb dream. Get real.”
“All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.”
“Sometimes, change is a good thing.”
“I think the biggest thing is just focusing on the day-to-day, your routine, not getting caught up in the future or the past and just being right there and focusing on what you have to do that day or that night to help your team win.”
“At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.”
“You want to help the team win and contribute any way possible.”
“Once you've had success, I think you can go one of two ways. You can either have that success and go downhill, or you can use it to build off of it and continue going upward.”
“I was the first person in my family to play baseball.”
“For me, it's different every year. Some years, it takes me a while to feel comfortable again, to feel like I'm ready to go. Other years, it clicks real fast. Sometimes, it just takes one game or one swing to feel like, 'OK, I'm back.'”
“It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.”
“It's all about today, the present, the game you have in front of you.”