Quotes from Alex Bregman

One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.

Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We're going to fight and grind every single pitch and try and do anything we can to help win games.

I put my heart and soul into it every single day, to go out there and try and win games for the Astros.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

My agent called me and said, 'You're going to be on the cover of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'' I was like, 'Are you serious?' It's unbelievable. Dream come true. I was yelling into the phone. I was super excited.

I just want to be treated fairly for my performance.

I'm really slow.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don't necessarily chase as much out of the zone.

The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.

When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.

It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your back.

It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

I like that - I like those little nervous jitters.

I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts the day the right way.

I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the Astros.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

I want to strike out less than 20 times.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

The Astros are going to be a dynasty.

You're going to make errors.