People say, ‘Weren’t you deprived of your childhood?’ No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time. – Bryce Harper
I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. ‘Overrated.’ ‘You suck.’ I’ll just do something to shut them up, like, ‘I’ll show you.’ – Bryce Harper
Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It’s something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You’re just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field. – Bryce Harper
The full thing is God-given. I don’t know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, ‘Oh, put your hands here.’ It was, ‘Where are you comfortable? You’re comfortable here; hit from there.’ – Bryce Harper
I don’t wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it’s my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you’ve got to respect that it’s not like baseball. – Bryce Harper
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat. – Bryce Harper
I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody’s a pretty good guy in the UFC. – Bryce Harper
You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams. – Bryce Harper
I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn’t dress up or anything – just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That’s how I’ve always been my whole life. – Bryce Harper
My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard – I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day. – Bryce Harper
Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, ‘We don’t work out or we’re not strong or this or that.’ Guys work so hard in baseball, it’s incredible. But people don’t know that. – Bryce Harper
D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they’re so nice and so polite and just, ‘Hey, I hope you have a great career,’ and ‘How are you doing, everything’s good?’ That’s pretty much where they leave it at. – Bryce Harper
