Quotes from Nolan Arenado

Yes, I want to help the team win but definitely want to be a guy that has an impact and helps the team, big-time.

I don't want to be content with what I'm doing. That's a bad trap to fall into.

Back in the day, before I really started to work on defense, I would just take ground balls, whatever, a couple, and then I'd say, 'OK, now I'm going to go hit.' Now I spend just as much time on ground balls as I do on hitting.

I want to be 'a dude,' a guy that can help the team win. Mike Trout is a guy, Adam Jones, Clayton Kershaw, those are dudes, the big dogs.

I think you can always chase something good and great in this game.

The love of the game and the way I play comes from my family, the Latin side more than anything.

I'm going to miss some of the boys on the Rockies... But coming to a team like St. Louis with great players and great history, I'm just super excited. I've always admired this organization from afar.

That's something I'm not worried about with St. Louis. They always bring up guys that are ready to go, you know, and they always go about producing players that are ready to go and contribute.

I grew up in Southern California, not too far from Dodger Stadium. And my entire family loves baseball.

It would be pretty cool to be one of those guys that stays with one organization their whole career.

Being a Dodger, being a third baseman, elite, one of the best. He was a really special player. Hall of Famer. No question about that. He has longevity. Everything you want in a player, Adrian Beltre does that.

The best players in this game are consistent, year in and year out. That's what I'm trying to do on defense. It's harder to do on offense, but I'm trying my best to do that, too.

It's like basketball - when players come onto a new team they've got to get used to the scheme and how they run the offense. Same with us in baseball. We've got to get used to each other on defense and trust each other and communicate.

We're baseball players, right? We make great money. Regardless if we don't make the money we want, we're still making great money. A lot of people in this world are struggling a lot harder than us.

I try not to analyze things too much. I just do them and hope it works out.

You want to have individual success like anybody else, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.

I'm not arrogant about my defense.

My family has a lot of Dodger fans.

When I hear about being one of the greatest third basemen of all time, that stuff is literally in one ear and out the other.

When I overthink when I have the ball, that's when I make the error and get myself in trouble.

I don't want to be a one-hit-wonder guy. I want to make sure that people say, 'You don't want to lay down bunts, because he's ready.'

When you're on a field with Yadi, you don't want to be the one letting the team down.

I've hit in the middle of the lineup for a long time now, and my job is to produce.