Best Bryce Harper Quotes & Sayings

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep. — Bryce Harper

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base. — Bryce Harper

I love working hard; I think people know that. — Bryce Harper

I don't have 'gears.' I play one way. That's all I've ever known. I WILL. — Bryce Harper

After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do. — Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season. — 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

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'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. — Bryce Harper

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips. — Bryce Harper

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media. — Bryce Harper

I love to train. Always have. — 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

I can squat 405. I'm proud of that - that's one of my favorites. — Bryce Harper

It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood. — Bryce Harper

If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.' — Bryce Harper

I want my teammates to know I have their backs. — Bryce Harper

I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU. — Bryce Harper

I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world. — Bryce Harper

My body feels pretty unbelievable. — Bryce Harper

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best. — 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

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player. — 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

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

Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from! — Bryce Harper

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me. — 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

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

Baseball needs more superstars. — Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself. — Bryce Harper

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night. — Bryce Harper

Seriously, it takes me, like, 30 minutes to do my hair before a game. — Bryce Harper

When I hit the ball, I do want to hurt it. — Bryce Harper

I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody's a pretty good guy in the UFC. — Bryce Harper

We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that. — Bryce Harper

I want to get on base every single time I get up there. Whether it's a walk or a base hit, I really don't care how I want to get on base. I just want to be on. — Bryce Harper

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me. — Bryce Harper