Quotes from Gabe Kapler

If I'm going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you're going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I'm adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.

Confidence, it turns out, is as vital to a players success as is talent.

I tore my Achilles' tendon in September 2005.

Elite baseball mechanics feel different in the bodies of MLB players than they appear on film.

Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn't help myself.

Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it's over.

Watching Clayton Kershaw in the very first game of the 2014 season, I realized that he's not overpowering; he's deceptive. It's the sum of his parts that makes the Los Angeles Dodgers ace baseball's most successful pitcher.

Oft-injured MLB players should consider taking a full year off near the middle of their careers.

I despise wasting a meal.

A pitcher's windup and throw is an explosive, coordinated full-body movement. They perform the move once, then rest, then perform it again. There is nothing aerobic about it.

Short pitchers often have compact, repeatable mechanics that can lead to good control and command.

We know that we can't make contact with the baseball with our front foot not firmly planted in the ground. So, in our cage drills we work on being on time and not rushing this action.

I had my share of failures at the plate as a MLB player, but I was always pretty confident against left-handed pitching.

I came out on the losing end of a home-plate collision enough times that I truly had to consider the risk.

I am immensely proud of our people. The way we have been persecuted, and our drive and our survival, is mind-boggling. I think that is part of the reason I continue to be so connected to the Holocaust, and why that has such a moving effect on me.

Brace yourself if you're a traditional hitting coach, I'm about to say something that will hurt your feelings. The best baseball swing is an uppercut.

Post career-threatening injury, you must fight not only your body, but your mind as well.

Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.

As a base runner myself, the moment I reached second base I began to fantasize about the potential contact at the plate. Every time I met a catcher in front of the plate throughout my career, the response I received from my teammates when returning to the dugout was a true hero's welcome.

This is why sports will always be the greatest of dramas; the most exciting entertainment known to man. Nobody can predict the outcome and the script is ever in flux.

Attempting to predict shoulder and elbow issues due to extensive innings early in a pitchers career is an inexact science.

Teammates in all sports love to be acknowledged.

I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your large office environment is also represented in an MLB clubhouse.

By branding myself authentically, the eyeballs will come.