Vladimir Guerrero Quotations

We're really close, ... My mom's very important to me. It's nice to go home after games and forget about it - enjoy the game and then enjoy the family atmosphere.

I feel happy that today I am going to play. I am excited to be on the field today.

I don't think I was anxious, ... I've always been a very aggressive hitter. When I make outs with pitches out of the strike zone, it's something I've done my whole career.

If something looks good, I'm swinging. They pay me to hit. I look at the ball and swing.

I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.

He comes into the clubhouse and says hello but doesn't put any pressure on you, ... It makes you feel good and inspires you to keep working.

I swung after they took me out (Thursday), ... I just wanted to make sure I could tell (manager) Mike (Scioscia) I was OK. I didn't want to wait until (Friday).

I think it probably seemed like I was anxious because I was swinging at bad pitches. I was thinking about it, but I'm going to keep swinging. Sometimes it looks bad and sometimes it doesn't, but I'm not going to stop swinging.

It feels pretty special, because those are guys that I've heard were tremendous players. To be in that company is very meaningful.

Mickey was right, ... I was too close to the plate.

This one felt more like it was stretched out. I overstretched it a little bit.

This one felt like it was more stretched out. Today it feels fine.

I've said from the beginning that I would not play and I haven't changed my original plan.

Ortiz said. ''Vladi says he doesn't remember it, but that his family always talked about the help they received from the US.

A lot of the talk before was suitcases and how many do you have, how many are you going to send home? ... Nowadays, we don't even talk about that. It's fun to talk about just playing the game and finishing strong and extending the season. My focus has changed from thinking about suitcases to how we extend the season deep into October.

It means a lot to do it at home. I really wanted to do it here for the fans. I never had a doubt that eventually it was going to come. Now I don't have to think about it anymore. I think it looked like I was even more anxious because I always swing at bad pitches, anyway. So it looked even worse because I was swinging at even worse pitches.

It means a lot to do it at home. I really wanted to do it here for the fans, ... I never had a doubt that eventually it was going to come. Now I don't have to think about it anymore. I think it looked like I was even more anxious because I always swing at bad pitches, anyway. So it looked even worse because I was swinging at even worse pitches.

I want to come back and do this again.

It's not a big game. It's very important to win today, but just to break the streak they had.

It's really something that's not new, even though I changed leagues and changed teams. If they walk me intentionally, it's just one more runner on base. I have faith in the guys hitting behind me.

I'm very happy for the fans. I wanted to do it at home. During the ovation, I wanted to run out to right field, forgetting that I was the DH.

I'm the same as I was all year, ... I can take it.

I remember my family talking about all the destruction they had there, ... One thing I feel very happy about is helping people because my family struggled before and other people helped out.

If you see me play, that's the way I am all year,

I am very, very happy for the fans, ... I really wanted to do it here for them because they have been very supportive. Out in right field, people kept telling me that I would do it. I am happy there is still some baseball left to play.

I feel collectively what everybody's feeling -- that we lost as a team, ... I feel I saw the ball quite well. It's not the series I wanted to have. We're going to keep our heads up, because I think we can do this again.

I feel happy with what I've done after coming back from a bad injury, ... I'm taking the same hacks I took before, I just feel good right now.

The fun thing was coming to the ballpark every day knowing I was fighting for something for the first time in my career. I was fighting to go to the playoffs and I was looking at guys who had been there before to guide me.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging at even more bad pitches and missing. It looked worse. But I was thinking about [the milestone], no doubt about it.

I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.