Quotes from Anthony Rendon

If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.

I'm a firm believer in Jesus, that he died for our sins. That's something I want to stand for. I want to share that to the world. That's what we're called to do.

I always feel happy for my teammates, but I'm not going to be the one at the top of the dugout yelling.

I'm not a fan of everyone treating you different because you play a sport.

The word tells us that trials will come ahead and we'll be ridiculed more for our faith. So if you're going to go in as a believer thinking that everything is going to be smooth, you're probably not in the right mind-set. It's going to be tough at times, and has been for me personally.

That's part of the game. People go through slumps.

I hang around a core group of people, a small group of people. They've been around me for a long time. They know my personality. They know me in and out, same as my family.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

You just can't label one player as an MVP. There are nine guys on the field.

Maybe I'm in the wrong sport. I should go to Australia and play fast-pitch softball.

That's the hardest part, getting out of my comfort zone and doing more in the public, for the kids or for the team. That's not the type of person I am. I'm trying to mature and work on that.

Yeah, if I see a ball in the zone then I'll try to put a good swing on it.

I probably tweet one or two things a year. Some guys use it for publicity... I'm not going to put myself out there.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.

As a human, yeah, it's awesome. You grow up and you are in Little League, and you want to make the all-star team; you go to college, and you want to make the all-star team. So any normal person would want to do it on the biggest stage and highest level. And I'm a normal person. I haven't changed there.

I didn't like the attention and that's what's awesome about Rice. I would go to class, walk around campus and do my thing. No one even noticed who I was.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.

We have our great days and our bad days. No matter what bad day I go through or strike out four times in a row, I still want to have that great attitude and go after the game and go talk to the kids and not worry about the game and let them know that this is what matters.

Seeing how the kids react to you is pretty awesome. Not necessarily that they're star struck, but they're shy. They're kids. They don't know how to act to a new person.

We're out here playing a game and I'm not one to take it like super, super serious.

There's kids out there that like me, so why aren't I taking the time to give back to them? If they adore me or they look up to me, just to whatever extent, I've got to show them that I care about them as well.

Sure, I'd love to be an all-star - without going. If that's possible.