“I don’t want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Days off always help. Even if people don’t like it when they give you a day off, you’ve got to take a day off because sometimes you’ve got to clear your mind.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I want to be a Tiger.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I’m the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it’s a strike, I’m going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I’m going to swing. Doesn’t matter if it’s a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it’s in the strike zone and it’s something you like, you’ve got to swing.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I am comfortable talking about everything because I think you can’t hide it. I can’t hide what I’m doing. I can’t lie to people when they see something.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I’m just trying to play my best and have fun.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“It’s a beautiful thing, baseball.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“If you do something every day a little, the end is going to be big.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When you’re not doing good, the world’s going to be against you.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Doesn’t matter what people say, doesn’t matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I want to play with my heart.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I’m doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I’m taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I’m getting better.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I want to do everything I can to play baseball.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don’t want that.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“We have the great fans in Detroit. We’ve got a great ballpark, great stadium.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I love to play in Detroit.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That’s our goal.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“It’s why this sport is so great. You learn something every day. Every day, something.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“How are you gonna score if somebody doesn’t drive in the runs?”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I focus on what I can do in this game. I don’t have speed. I’m not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can’t.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“First you help yourself, and then you can help everybody.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I’m going to hit it.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Swing at strikes. You’ve got to swing at strikes.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“The Triple Crown, or any of that stuff, is not my focus. My focus is on winning. I just hope people can be happy with that.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“You have to respectfully listen to advice.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“You’ve got to be flexible. If you want to win, you have to do whatever it takes.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“To me, as long as I can play and I’m not hurting the team, I’m playing.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“You don’t know how long you can play this game, so you keep playing it until they tell you to stop.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I love this game. I love to have fun. You’re playing a sport that you’ve loved since you were a kid, you get paid for it, and even if you’re 0-for-20 or 0-for-30, you still have fun.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“God blessed me with this talent, so why would I not want to not play? I want to play every single game.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Got to play, man. Got to play hard.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I just try to find ways to help my team win.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I learned so much from my mistakes.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I want people to think of me as one of the game’s greatest players.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“People don’t realize a lot of things about me. A lot of things, they don’t know.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I think sports can help any country get together.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I think sports can bring a lot of happiness to people.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“Detroit is part of my family and part of my life, my home.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When you leave your country, it’s hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I’m not mad when people talk bad about me; that’s the way it is.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I think baseball can bring a lot of happiness to the people and people can be together.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I don’t worry about my age. God gave me strength and the ability to keep playing.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I always like to play. I cannot sit down and see what’s going to happen, because it’s boring.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I don’t like drama.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“You play with pain. You don’t think about it.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I try to be myself. Do anything to win games.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When you see a guy play hard, it’s kind of like you want to follow him.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When I do something, I don’t want to be second best. That’s the right way.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“My wife says I don’t listen when she talks. But when people talk, I’m in my own world. I think – always thinking.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“You can’t trust people.”
― Miguel Cabrera
“When you grow up, people don’t speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.”
― Miguel Cabrera
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