Freddie Freeman

“I grew up an Angels fan.”

“Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.”

“I think about my mom every day.”

“You think about when you're kids and see these guys on TV, and now you're in the same clubhouse as Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox.”

“Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.”

“When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.”

“You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.”

“There are certain guys you just take from different teams that you watch.”

“I want to represent Canada so I can represent my mother.”

“I'm going to go out there and just keep trying to get better.”

“I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.”

“I love coming home.”

“You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game.”

“You've just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You've got to go out there and just keep playing.”

“When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.”

“I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.”

“In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not.”

“I think this world needs a little more hugging in their lives.”

“I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.”

“They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.”