Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Trevor Bauer - Page 2

I think when people speak and they come from a place of sincerity and like caring about the situation, you know, it's easy for people to identify that, and to hear that in the genuine nature of it.

I'm an intense competitor, and that fire is what drives me.

That's really one thing I really care about as a person is trying to make the people's lives around me better. Whether that's just being a friend and listening or with information I can offer. However it is, that's something I care about and I try to do on a regular basis.

You grow from failure. That's one thing I try to apply to my life in all aspects.

I want to be a member of an organization that values me and that I value them.

In a competition, you get fired up, you're jacked up on adrenaline and you do stuff sometimes that you look at later and you're like 'How the heck did I even do that? Why would I do something like that?' But it's just in the moment.

I like who I am, trying to handle myself with integrity, character, honesty, treat people well and how I would like to be treated. And as long as I do those things, I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am at the end of each day.

That's where my vision lies and my passion lies, leaving the game in a better place for my fellow players than it was when I came in.

I'm very much human.

It's definitely nice when you develop a plan and you go out there and you work on it with the idea that it's going to work, but you never really know until you get into a game situation and you see how it plays out.

I have no interest in being a reliever. It's not to say I wouldn't do it at some point, but I would have to have a really long time to think about it or if I want to retire.

I think at the end of the day, I am myself, to a fault.

If I didn't play baseball, I probably wouldn't play a sport because i'm not really that athletic. Baseball was the one sport I could nerd my way to the top.

Am I perfect? No. Far from it. But that's the same case for everybody.

I like making myself uncomfortable and throwing different stuff my way and trying to find a solution for it. I think that's how you improve. Find a way to make yourself uncomfortable, get comfortable with it, and do it again.

Generally when I say stuff, people take it one way or the other.

I care about making the game, the industry and the people I'm around better because I'm around. Ultimately that's what creates a legacy... But you have to be OK with making people mad because people don't like change.

Sometimes you don't realize how unhappy you are in a situation until you are out of it, because it's just kind of day-to-day life.

I want to be a member of a winning team.

A piece of my training program is doing exercises to force myself to work in an unconscious or a subconscious realm, as opposed to a conscious realm.

I think it's a fairly well-known thing about me that I'm a big nerd.

This happens in politics. Any sort of leadership role, this happens. There's certain moments that come across when you have to make a decision. Do I do A or do I do B? The decision drastically changes the future.

The professional game, in a lot of ways, sucks. It's not fun like 11-year-old baseball was or college baseball or high school baseball.

Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.

Hopefully at some point, someone else behind me will have an easier time with training methods, with being honest, with being true to who they are or whatever, because I broke down some sort of barrier.

Until I have a season where I do feel like I'm the best, I don't think I'm really going to be satisfied with it. And even when I do have a season where I feel like I'm the best, I'm sure I'll find something that I'm unsatisfied with it. That's kind of how I am.

Look, I'm not that big.

I spend so much time thinking and I don't generally have strong emotional reactions too much.

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you design a process to solve the problem. Then you execute the process and repeat it over and over until you get it right.

I wasn't a natural-born athlete. I was made.

I've always enjoyed being on MLB Network Radio as a guest.

I enjoy the pro game because it gives me an outlet to combine my intellect with something that I can still enjoy doing. It's better than applying my intellect while sitting in a corner office somewhere, trying to write code.

It's definitely nice to come and say, 'Yeah, I put in a lot of work and I worked on the right stuff and it is working,' as opposed to saying 'I put in a lot of work and I don't know if it's working or not.'

I want to win a World Series. I've come in second, both in college and in the big leagues. I'm tired of it.

I like to try to learn from my past and be a better person because of it. Better player, better teammate. Better everything.

I enjoyed baseball more as a kid, when it was just fun.

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

I'm not that strong. I'm not fast.

I'm not explosive. I can't jump.

Let everybody compete on a level playing field.