Trea Turner

“Hits and runs are the numbers that really impress me. It means you're contributing a lot to your team by being in the lineup every single day, and scoring runs is how you win games.”

“I appreciate when a guy goes out there and makes a great play or runs the bases correctly.”

“It's always nice to hit a home run, no matter if it's your first or your last. It's always fun, especially for me. I don't hit many.”

“I think if the players are trying to market themselves in the sense they want to wear cool cleats or cool shoes and this and that, that brings attention to baseball. It brings attention to the sport and that gets kids excited.”

“Playing bad isn't fun.”

“When you prove you can hit, you get tough pitches to hit. And then you got to prove you can take them. And when you prove you can take them, they'll give you pitches to hit. It's back and forth, back and forth.”

“I feel like everyone puts a lot of question on me, what I'm going to do offensively, but I'd like to affect the game in a lot of ways. If I can walk, I walk. If I can hit a homer, if I can bunt.”

“I've always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter.”

“I'll pinch-run all day, I'll play defense all day, it doesn't matter to me.”

“You have to play defense for the pitchers.”

“I never wanted to be a one-dimensional player.”

“No matter how you use it or what context you are using it in, words hurt.”

“I want every player to get as much money as possible, just for the health of the game - if players are getting paid, then the game's healthy and people are showing up and watching.”

“It's nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it's offense or defense, whatever it may be - get some production everywhere.”

“Our job is to play as best as we can. And if that means hitting 1, 2, 3, then I'll do that at a high level in order for us to be able to win.”

“I think all anybody can ask for is to just have a chance.”

“We play Amazing Race on New Year's Eve. My mom or aunt makes a whole list of things that we have to find, and we split up into teams. Sometimes it's like a Chinese takeout menu or take a picture with a cop, so on New Year's Eve we're running around all over the place going into restaurants and different things.”

“I think I try to separate every single play, because like I said, if you're 0 for 3 with three Ks, the fourth at-bat could be the deciding factor whether your team wins or not. You've got to forget that you've got the 3 Ks.”

“A lot of people that bully or whatever it may be, people that don't know you, classmates or a lot of stuff is from people who don't know who you are and what your values and morals are.”

“I'd love to stay with the Nats.”