Pablo Sandoval

I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.

In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.

I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.

I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.

I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.

I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.