Mookie Betts

You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.

R.B.I.' is such a playable game. You can pick the game up and play right away without a crazy long learning curve, and that's important for the casual fan and gamer.

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

I think when you're stressing, or worried about your performance, worrying about this and worrying about that, that's when things start to get tough and you're not enjoying it anymore and it becomes a job. Although it is our job to play, still you have to understand that it's a game and you have to enjoy it.

We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

It's kind of tough as you're playing you kind of wonder what is going to happen to you as you go through arbitration or as you go through free agency.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.