I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I'm not as good as I want to be.

- Vladimir Guerrero

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I don't think about how many people are watching me. I'm just happy to play baseball for myself.

- Vladimir Guerrero

When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keep…

- Vladimir Guerrero

I think it looked like I was a little more aggressive than I was, ... I swing at bad pitches anyway, but I was swinging at even more bad pitches and …

- Vladimir Guerrero

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

- Vladimir Guerrero