Quotes from Pablo Sandoval

When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.

If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.

I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.

I have no ill will about anything.

You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.

I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.

The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

I'm moving forward to do the best.

You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.

It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.