Quotes from Mookie Betts

Yeah, there's always room for improvement.

She's always been there for me through anything, I can think of many school projects I had to do and I would say, 'Mom, can you help me.' She would help me write a paper or make a poster. She's just been that kind of mom. No matter what, she makes sure I'm alright and I thank her for that.

It's OK for two sides to disagree. It's perfectly fine. It's normal.

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

I'm going to be someone who smiles and brings joy to the locker room and to the field.

I just kind of want to be me.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

Orange is the New Black' - oh my gosh. That is a great TV show.

My favorite TV show is probably 'Power.'

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.

I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

You make a 2-10 split pretty often when you bowl as much as I do.

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that's OK.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

I have no idea what it is about bowling. It's just a love I have for it. I can't even explain why. Bowling is just fun for me.