Kyle Schwarber

“This is what you live to play baseball for is playing in front of your home crowd in the playoffs.”

“When you're rounding the bases in front of a full, packed stadium, that's what you live for. It's really cool.”

“You want to put yourself in good situations in your head, and hopefully they play out in the field.”

“Absolutely I like being able to lead off a game.”

“People think that I'm trying to go up there and just hit homers. That's not the case. That's the last thing I'm doing.”

“You can't keep going out there chasing hits. If you're going to chase hits, you're not going to really have quality at-bats or get on base anymore.”

“There's things that you want to accomplish, but to do that you have to work. That's the name of the game.”

“I think I've become definitely an above-average defender.”

“Heck, anyone would take a 70 mph hit vs. a 110 mph out, but that's when you just try to go back to the quality of the at-bats.”

“I know I can get better in the outfield.”

“I've always been very lucky to be on really good teams.”

“I'm all for umpires. I'm not against them. I'm pro-umpire.”

“I'm not foreign to starting slow, you just need to keep working. You need to trust yourself that you're the same guy... and things will happen.”

“I've only won in my career, from when I've been in Chicago, being traded over to Boston, being in the playoffs there, too.”

“There's good at-bats in there where you're working deep counts and getting on base.”

“I've always said there are experiences, and I've had experiences before messing up some plays in left field. I'm going to work on it and be better for it.”

“I like catching because it's down and dirty and gritty. It's an awesome position.”

“I really have a passion for catching since I've done it all my life.”

“You want to impact your community, not just in terms of playing baseball, but you can give people a little bit of an inside look of you away from baseball and things that you're passionate about and things you really care for.”

“I'm really more focused on getting another championship ring. More than one. Don't get me wrong, there's obviously accomplishments you want to reach in the game, but for me, being able to have a ring and reach that goal, there's just nothing that can top that.”