Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Buster Posey

Honestly, as a baseball player, there's such a satisfaction in going out and trying to accomplish something with a group of guys that become your friends over the course of the year or multiple years. Whether that goal is reached or not, by the end of it, there's satisfaction in knowing that you really put everything into it.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

I was happy to be drafted. I was happy to be playing professional baseball. And I was happy to be in the big leagues.

I don't know if the goal is necessarily to hit the ball in the air; I think when my swing is right it just happens on its own.

I think the flow of the game will a lot of times dictate what you do.

Coming from a great college program like F.S.U., everybody had one common goal, and that was to win. You get into the minor leagues, and whether it's right or wrong, it's a selfish game.

As much as I think the sports world loves to try to predict everything, there are still some parts of it that can't be predicted.

Sometimes when I think you get fatigued, a little extra inflammation in the back and hip, it's harder to move fast and you lose a little bit of bat speed.

I've seen how quickly a season can be over from injury.

My passion is definitely to be behind the plate for as long as I can.

I think this applies to a lot of things in life. When things aren't going well, you start to worry about things you can't control, and it also holds true with baseball.

The biggest thing, when I'm hitting, is the ability to feel like I can move fast and powerfully.

Any time your child is sick, if it's a cold or if they get a scratch or whatever it is, it's hard.

I've been a fan of golf for a long time.

I always go back to when I was a kid and thinking about playing in the big leagues, so now that I've played in a thousand games, it's a cool accomplishment.

The clubhouses are pretty... uh... Outdated. You get pretty crammed in there for three or four days. But it still is one of those places where, for me, I look around and pinch myself just thinking, 'I'm playing at Wrigley field.'

You go and do what you do to prepare the best you can and then come out and give it what you've got. That's ultimately all you can do.

It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.

I think anybody that catches shares a bond. You know what it takes to play the position from a physical and mental standpoint.

I think the fun part with the commercials is that I've been able to show a different side of my personality, relax, and be a little sillier than normal.

From my experience, playing on some really good teams in the past, that's No. 1, to pitch well and play defense.

I'm not saying this in an egotistical way, but I think there's value in having a good hitter behind the plate and being able to put a bat at first base as well.

The ability to recover gets harder the older you get.

It's a long season so you've got to try and focus on each day.

I'm not ever going to be a big bat flip guy. I don't really care. But the guy on the mound might care, so that's a risk.

For me, being involved in a no-hitter or a perfect game is one of the most exciting things in baseball.

Anybody who has tried to adopt before knows that it's quite the roller-coaster.

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is... Look, we play 162 games. It's a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

Well, I think baseball should be fun, but there's always a line. There's a fine line with everything. Where's the line between making it fun and making it disrespectful.

To me, getting a chance to meet Yogi Berra and knowing how long he played and what he accomplished... I'm a huge fan of it. I'm just as enthralled as anybody else. Maybe a little bit more, because I understand the difficulty of what he accomplished.

I think that's what's obviously so great about sports - it allows people, families, communities to come together.

I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I'd be pretty happy about that.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

The goal is to try to just get better each day.

From my vantage point as a catcher, those are tough lineups to face when guys lay off the tough pitches and work counts and still have the ability to drive the ball. It's usually a recipe of some good offense.

I don't want to look back and say I got to play the game that I love so much and didn't give it everything I have. As simple as that may sound, that's how I feel.

I just feel fortunate to be able to play as long as I have.

It was a tremendous honor to win the Gold Glove because I've always taken a lot of pride in my defense.

You feel worn down at the end of every year, regardless of whether you have power numbers or not.

I think, as a lot of kids, I had a dream to play Major League Baseball, but I think I was pretty good about enjoying the moment, enjoying my high school years, enjoying my time in college and not looking too far ahead, and just appreciating where I was at the time.

My mindset is to prepare myself to catch every day and adjust from there.

I can look at age curves and try to learn from that and say, 'All right, maybe I need to adjust some workouts or spend more time in the cold tub.'

It doesn't matter where I hit.

The reason you play the game is to help the team win.

Fortunately for my wife, I'm not a snorer so she doesn't have to put up with that.

I'm the oldest of four, I have three siblings, and I think I kind of grew up aggravating and picking at them.

I think there's a correlation between mechanically being in the right place and the body moving the correct way to more balls being in the air, whether it's line drives or fly balls.

Any time you go through a stretch where you don't hit a homer for a while, it's just natural to start to think about it.

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

PetCo in San Diego is great. That park has a great vibe to it.

Votto's a guy I love to watch. I think the numbers will tell you that he's the best in the game at swinging at strikes. By doing that, he gets himself in a lot of good counts.

I really didn't have a favorite Major League catcher in college, but I would watch a lot of games. If one was on, I'd try to pick up little things from whomever was catching at that time.

That's the great thing about sports - nothing's guaranteed.

Ultimately, it's always going to be about trying to win games.

I've been fortunate to be on some really good teams.

I used to be able to just walk into a gym cold and jump on the squat rack. But those days are gone.

That's still hard for me to believe that I've been on a team that has won three championships.

As a competitor, you don't want to use anything as an excuse. No matter how your body's doing or how you're feeling mentally, you should be able to find a way to get the job done.

I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.

I think anytime you can slow things down in a big situation, it's an advantage.