I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it’s possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it’s a white man’s sport. Or we think that since other black people don’t play it, so why should I play it. Mookie Betts Read Quote
I’ve been playing golf for a little while and I can’t get over the 85 hump. It doesn’t matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I’m going to end up around 85. Mookie Betts Read Quote
The more Opening Days the better. It never gets old. It’s one of those things where as it comes you embrace it, get ready, you still get those butterflies, which means you care. Mookie Betts Read Quote
I think my senior year in high school was when I started wearing Jordans. It was our team rule that we had to play in them so that’s when I got – not introduced to them, but got into it. Through the minors I started collecting some, just to wear, and that’s when I told myself I want to become a Jordan athlete and did all I could to do it. Mookie Betts Read Quote
I just try to be the same guy each and every day and just do something when we’re hitting or make a nice defensive play or run the bases. Just trying to be consistent in that way. Mookie Betts Read Quote
