Kyle Schwarber

“I was fortunate to be around a lot of great people early on in my career. Jon Lester, Dexter Fowler, David Ross, Jon Jay, Jason Heyward, Anthony Rizzo. Those were the guys I looked up to and learned a lot from.”

“Coming off of '19, it was a great year for me, and then 2020 wasn't the best.”

“Whenever you can put the ball in the seats, that's instant offense. That's good. I think the biggest thing is going up and not trying to do it.”

“There's times when you see people try to shake out their hands because they got jammed or, you know, bat breaks. You feel that stuff. But once you bear a ball, you really don't feel it come off the bat. You just see the trajectory and see how it flies.”

“I feel like people react to the way I am as a player because I'm not the flashy player. I consider myself as a grinder. I want to go out there and give it 110 percent every day. I think that's reciprocated well with the fans.”

“I love to drive.”

“Nothing is easy in this game.”

“Growing up, I was lucky. My dad always came home. I got a regular childhood.”

“I know the game can throw a lot of different things at you. You just have to stick to consistency.”

“I've missed the postseason once. It's a special brand of baseball, and it's a brand of baseball that you want to play every single year.”

“We always talk about swing counts. If you can get from a 2-1 count to a 3-1 count versus a 2-2 count, that's big. That's just an instance. Those are things that, us as hitters, we look for.”

“Some of the best players in the game make it look easy. This game is not easy at all.”

“I think all the accomplishments in this game, I think they mean a little more when you're done, it's over and you're on the couch watching baseball.”

“Heck, I'm from Ohio, so I should be used to cold weather.”

“I have a great amount of respect for, obviously, my family.”

“You've got to be able to make fun of yourself every once in a while and loosen the situation up.”

“I always talk about it with my dad - I said, 'If baseball doesn't work out, maybe I'll join the military and be a policeman.'”

“I thought about doing ROTC in college.”

“Catching is what I really want to be doing. There's no other position I want to play.”

“I was really drawn into the military when I was young.”