Asdrubal Cabrera Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Asdrubal Cabrera:
I like it, but I think second base is too boring.
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I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.
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I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.
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Everything that happened last year stays in the past.
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I would love to stay at one position.
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It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.
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This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.
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That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.
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I've really enjoyed playing this game. It's a game that I try my best to enjoy to the fullest. Without pressure. Relaxed. And that helps me when I play.
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I like to keep my team together.
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When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.
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More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.
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I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.
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I've got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.
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Try to do 100 percent, do my job, and that's all.
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Some years you have good years, some years you don't.
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If you want me to play second, I need time to get ready to play second. If you want me to play short, I need time.
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I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
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I'm not one to put a lot of pressure on myself.
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I want to be there for the team.
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Any position they want me to play, I'll be there.
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I see the game too slow from second base. That's why I like to play more short.
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That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
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It's hard to come back and play when you've gone through surgery.
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My dad, he believed in me. My first year was hard for me. I came to the States with myself, and no one came with me.
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I don't swing with my knees. I swing with my hands.
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It's tough to lose every day.
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Sure, I get tired. But it's a long season, and you've got to play no matter if you have a little injury. I'm that kind of player.
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I always try to boost everyone's spirits.
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It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.
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When you get old and play every day like I did, it's hard. Hard on your body. You start to get sore. You gain weight. But that makes me work harder, be stronger in my mind, and show I can still play.
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With my experience, I think I've earned that respect from the team and from my teammates.
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I think that's the key for a good team, to work together like a family. It's something that I've learned over the years with the experience that I've gotten over 10 seasons.
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You're not going to put up good numbers every year.
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It makes you feel good that another team wants you, but I play with my heart.
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Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.
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I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.
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I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.
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Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
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I think it's hard for someone to play short and then come back to second. It's not the same.
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They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.
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I don't spend the whole off-season in Venezuela. I spend a couple of weeks in Cleveland, go to Florida, take my son to Disney World. But I still have my home, and my whole family lives in Venezuela.
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I try to be a good teammate.
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You have more time to make the play at second base than shortstop. That's why the game's more quick.
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I just work every day.
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I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.
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Only facing right-handers and not left-handers is hard for me.
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I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
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Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
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I got Neil Walker now as my new second baseman. He's great. He looks comfortable there. He knows what he's doing. That's the second baseman you want to play with.
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I just try to do my best every at-bat. That's what I plan to do.
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It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.
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When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
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A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.
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We want to win and make a push.
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I feel like I want to be an Indian all my career.
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Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
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I'm excited to wear my country's jersey.
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