Quotes from 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.

To me, as long as I can play and I'm not hurting the team, I'm playing.

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.

You can't trust people.

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.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

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.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

When you're not doing good, the world's going to be against you.

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.