“It ain't like I had a dad out there to play catch with me or throw me ...” — Tommy Pham Quote

“It ain't like I had a dad out there to play catch with me or throw me batting practice. I'm proud of myself.”

“In 2016, I had an .870 OPS before I stopped playing every day. An .870 OPS in the big leagues? That plays. But I never got the recognition.”

“If I'm on base a guy might get a little bit more fastballs. Or if someone else is on base everyone knows I'm going to be a tough out - I get on base 40 percent of the time and that helps any lineup.”

“Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.”

“I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.”

“You don't win games by batting long periods of time.”