Quotes About Offseason

In the off season, you work out for two hours a day, and then you got all this other time off. I like doing other stuff. Football obviously isn't going to last a lifetime either, so it's always cool to get in front of a camera, do commercials, and do endorsements for products that you love.

You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

In college, there never really was an offseason. The season would end, you'd get a week break, and then the hardest time of the year would start. Winter workouts in college were absolutely miserable.

There's nothing like a shake-up when you are on the street just training and everybody in the league is with their team engaged in offseason workouts.

In the offseason, you can definitely get after it a little more. You can have very intense workouts and not have to worry about a match coming up in a day or two or in the next week.

I train with young guys in the offseason just to be honest and keep myself sure, to let myself know if I'm ready or will I be ready.

It's football. You take weird hits. That's what you prepare for in the offseason so your body can take all those weird hits and you can get right back up.

The offseason after the 2014 season, I worked with hitting coach Damon Mashore. I always had power in batting practice but couldn't take it into a game consistently. We made a little adjustment with my hands, lowered them a bit to get a consistent path to the ball, a natural uppercut to elevate the ball and backspin some balls.

I am a movie buff. I am a huge fan of all genres, and watch them whenever I can. I also write and produce movies in the offseason.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

During the offseason, when you don't have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress - whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you're doing at the time.

I go back to Toronto each off season and feel renewed every time I cross the border to my home and native land.

When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.

I think with an offseason, with some OTAs with more reps, more repetitions like any player, they develop and get and get better.

I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

My senior year I felt I put a lot more time into the offseason to make a lot more happen. Going out my senior year, I felt like I did everything I wanted to do and more. I felt like I dominated and I feel comfortable going to the next level and that I'm ready.

No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

Basically, I really like to train. That's what keeps me busy during the offseason - just training and getting my body right and getting ready for the next year.

It's really nice to be able to go into the offseason and attack the training as soon as possible.

I don't ever take an extended period off between minicamp and the start of training camp.

For players you don't hear about in the news, they enjoy the hell out of the offseason. They can travel and see things they never thought they'd see, or go back home to relax and see their kids and family that they haven't had a chance to hang out with in a few months.

I'm just learning how to take care of my body better in the offseason, working out more, working out smarter, as well - I feel like that's been key.