Judge Quotes

"If your team is in the trenches, you've got to be in the trenches with them."

"I just take it one day at a time, try to forget about what I did the day before. Go out there like every day is Opening Day."

"I do a lot of planks. I feel like the plank is the most underrated core workout; that's one of my go-to moves."

"The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it."

"You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team."

"Sometimes you've got to tip your cap when they're painting stuff on the corner. But you can't give up, got to keep battling and make some adjustments."

"It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do."

"Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier."

"I never want to play timid or scared of anything, especially when my pitcher or my teammates are out there going 100 percent."

"That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you've been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you're going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot."

"Music, I feel like, affects people's moods."

"If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen."

"A lot of people love to watch the Yankees."

"There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you."

"The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes."

"I just like music."

"They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section and call it Judge's Chambers and give them little judge outfits, and we'll see what happens. I think it turned out great."

"Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There's always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day."

"To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor."

"Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing."

"When I'm lifting heavy, doing squats, and doing upper-body workouts, it's mostly about core and stability. But I'll still do deadlifts. I also do tire workouts with these big 600-pound tires, flipping them and stuff like that."

"If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset."

"If I'm sitting at home playing video games, and I've got a couple of minutes to myself before bed, I'm listening to music and putting a couple of playlists together. I'm passionate about music."

"If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up."

"You can never come into the spring feeling like you've got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone's going to pass you up."

"I know I wouldn't be a New York Yankee if it wasn't for my mom: the guidance she gave me as a kid growing up, knowing the difference from right and wrong, how to treat people and how to go the extra mile and put in extra work, all that kind of stuff."

"When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I went to pro ball, it would be a little bit better.' Now that I look back on it, I made the right choice."

"Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training."

"To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve."

"For me, all my negative thoughts that I have about, 'How did you miss that pitch? Why did you miss that pitch? You shouldn't have missed that pitch.' I just kind of sit there and kind of crush it up, and once I'm done doing that... I just kind of toss it aside."