My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomplished. I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
- Pablo Sandoval
Career, Achieve, Had, Complacent
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.
- Pablo Sandoval
Career, Give, Happen, Early
When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
- Pablo Sandoval
Regret, Committed, Comments, Apologize
It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
- Pablo Sandoval
Wake Up, Achieve, Been, Every Single Day
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
- Pablo Sandoval
Prepare, Some, Downs, Ups
I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
- Pablo Sandoval
Play, Want, Country, Goals
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
- Pablo Sandoval
Faith, Grandmother, Then, Helmet
If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
- Pablo Sandoval
Like, Been, Meant, Joking
I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
- Pablo Sandoval
Always, Francisco, San, Giants
I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
- Pablo Sandoval
Prove, Offensive, Going, Defensive
I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
- Pablo Sandoval
Doing, Pay Attention, Going, Season
During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
- Pablo Sandoval
Practice, Play, Batting, Season
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.
- Pablo Sandoval
Goal, Everybody, Which, Venezuela
The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
- Pablo Sandoval
Success, Myself, Now, Surround
I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
- Pablo Sandoval
Trust, Book, Microphone
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.
- Pablo Sandoval
Been, Very, Set, Trainers
If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
- Pablo Sandoval
Go, Going, Keep, Working Hard
Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
- Pablo Sandoval
Passionate, Country, Same, Aggressive
When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.
- Pablo Sandoval
Country, Here, Another, So Much Time
We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
- Pablo Sandoval
Want, Surrounded, Makes, Player
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.
- Pablo Sandoval
Injuries, Year, Prove, Teammates
When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
- Pablo Sandoval
Relax, Game, Having, Backs
I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
- Pablo Sandoval
Myself, Play, Prepare, Teammates
I'm moving forward to do the best.
- Pablo Sandoval
Best, Forward, Moving
Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
- Pablo Sandoval
Doing, Reason, Happen, Things Happen
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
- Pablo Sandoval
Will, Glove, Really, Bat
I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
- Pablo Sandoval
Know, How, Where, Failed
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.
- Pablo Sandoval
Doing, Been, Touching, Staff
I am not taking anything for granted.
- Pablo Sandoval
I Am, Am, Taking, Granted
I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
- Pablo Sandoval
Maturity, Grow, Motivated, Grow Up
You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
- Pablo Sandoval
Learn, Grow, Need, Grow Up
When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.
- Pablo Sandoval
City, Grow, Some, Grow Up
I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
- Pablo Sandoval
Learn, Mature, Learned, Pieces
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
- Pablo Sandoval
Always, Very, Am, Selfish
In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
- Pablo Sandoval
Learning, Stop, Over, Baseball
I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
- Pablo Sandoval
Have Fun, How, Field, Baseball
You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
- Pablo Sandoval
Feet, Making Mistakes, Go, Ground
If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
- Pablo Sandoval
Worst Thing, Going, Worst, Good People
I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
- Pablo Sandoval
Worry, Numbers, About, Wins
I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.
- Pablo Sandoval
Work, I Can, Weigh, Athlete
People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
- Pablo Sandoval
Best, Want, Always, Mad
I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
- Pablo Sandoval
Weigh
I'm more mature. I respect more the game as I should.
- Pablo Sandoval
Game, More, Should, Mature
It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
- Pablo Sandoval
Mistakes, Learn, Your, Lesson
You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.
- Pablo Sandoval
Best, Head, Keep, Fighting
I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
- Pablo Sandoval
Work, Work Hard, Level, Remain
I have no ill will about anything.
- Pablo Sandoval
Will, Anything, About, Ill
Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
- Pablo Sandoval
Night, Tell, Before, Sleep
I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.
- Pablo Sandoval
Work, Lose, Nothing, Weight
You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
- Pablo Sandoval
Mistakes, Past, Things, In The Past
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
- Pablo Sandoval
Past, Things, In The Past
It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
- Pablo Sandoval
Money, How, About, Treat
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