Tommy Pham

“I'm not your typical baseball player.”

“Strikeouts are part of the game.”

“Yes, it's true. I actually do smile.”

“I want to be able to say at the end of my career that I gave everything I possibly could to be the best player I could possibly be for as long as I did it.”

“If I'm faster, I'm going to catch more balls. If I catch more balls, I save more runs for the team.”

“I play this game to win. And I play this game to have success.”

“When you are looked upon to play every day, there's an element of consistency that your team looks for.”

“To be recognized as one of the best of the half-season, that would be a great accomplishment. That's something I work so hard for, outside of winning.”

“I don't want to be an out where I feel like they can make a pitch and they can get me out or I chase pitches out of the zone.”

“The tough thing about this is when you're working on something, you want some kind of results to know that what you're working on is going to work.”

“You control your own destiny.”

“The guys that are really good in this game, they know how to put it together. And when you showcase it consistently, you get the great you.”

“My dad's been in prison my whole life. If I wanted to play catch, I had to play catch with a brick wall with a tennis ball. If I wanted to work on my hitting, I had to throw a whiffle ball up and hit by myself.”

“Good teams grind out at-bats, and good teams swing at strikes.”

“I'm a high roller at many casinos. You can look at my credit line.”

“I know analytics with the best of 'em.”

“I'm from a background where my mom kept it so real.”

“The main thing you want to look at is, am I swinging at strikes and am I putting good swings on the balls within the strike zone.”

“It's definitely fun when you're winning and you're hitting home runs because it just makes you feel like you contributed that much more.”

“In 2016, I had an .870 OPS before I stopped playing every day. An .870 OPS in the big leagues? That plays. But I never got the recognition.”