It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.
Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.
I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
I approach spring training the same way every year.
Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I'm a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you're trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you're also going out there trying to be competitive.
I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.
Instead of going to spring training, I went to basic training.
We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
You can never come into the spring feeling like you've got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone's going to pass you up.
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
