“Some kids grow in their mom’s stomach; I grew in my mom’s heart,” Judge added. “She’s always showed me love and compassion ever since I was a little baby. I’ve never needed to think differently or wonder about anything.”
“Words can’t describe how proud of him we are,” Aaron’s father Wayne told The New York Post in July. “If it happens to end tomorrow, he’s the type of kid who will say, ‘It was meant to be’ and move on.”
I think that is one thing I’ve picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.
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良いスイングを続け、良い球を打てば、良い結果が生まれるでしょう
If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.
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.
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三振はするものです。私もよく三振します。でも、とにかく努力を
People strike out. I strike out a lot – it happens. Just got to keep working.
Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike – maybe it’s a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike – and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they’re yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.
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毎日、自分の仕事を獲得しなければならない
You have to earn your job every day.
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僕の場合は、1打席、1球、と1プレーづつこなしていくことです
For me, it’s just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.
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このゲームができる時間は限られてる。だから自分の力を出し尽くすんだ
I have a short time to play this game. I’m trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.
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スコアや状況はあまり関係ありません。やるべきことをやるだけです
It doesn’t really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.
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偉大な選手とは、毎日、チームと一緒に切磋琢磨する選手のことをいう
You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.
I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It’s a thinking man’s game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.
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バットのスイートスポットに当たった時は、あまり実感はないものです
Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don’t really feel it.
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勝利のためチームが自分に求めることに、ただ集中するだけです
I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.
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.
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多くのことを期待されていることは分かっていますが、素晴らしいチームメイトに囲まれています
I know a lot is expected of me, but I’m surrounded by some great teammates.
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2ストライクとなったら、バトルの時だ。何かを仕掛けて、仕事を仕上げよう
Once it gets to two strikes, it’s time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.
I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that’s what I wanted to do.
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ヤンキースにドラフトされたときから、スイングの練習を続けてきました
Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I’ve been working on my swing.
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ショートやセンターを守る場合、ボールの大部分はセンターのフィールドに打ち込まれます
Any time you play shortstop or center field, the majority of the baseballs are hit in the middle of the field.
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仕事を得るために戦う――それが、私のスプリングトレーニングにおける考え方です
Fighting for a job – that’s been my mindset every SpringTraining.
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新しいヤンキースタジアムを見てみると、以前のヤンキースタジアムも見てみたかったような気がします
I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.
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成功を繰り返し、あるいは再現しようとするのは、決して容易なことではありません
Repeating, trying to repeat success – it never gets easier.
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私のバットがボールに当たれば、良いことが起こると思います
If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.
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このリーグには素晴らしいピッチャーがいます。時には踊らされることもあるでしょう。彼らは狙ってきます
There are some great pitchers in this league. You’re going to get fooled sometimes. They’re going to get you.
I’ve always had that mindset of, ‘OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don’t get too high, don’t get too low – just enjoy it.’ Don’t ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I’m not going to an amusement park, I’m going to a baseball field.
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.
This is a crazy game we play. You’re going to have those times you can’t get out, and those times where you can do everything right, and the ball does not fall.
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.
When you’re facing a different guy every at-bat, he’s coming at you with his best stuff. There’s no warm-up; there’s no ‘see a pitch.’ You’ve got to be locked in from the very first pitch… The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.
When I was younger, I’d always forget stuff. I think there was probably 4-5 times where we’d drive 30 minutes to a town for the baseball tournament, and all of a sudden, I’d get to the field and look in my bag, and I didn’t have my cleats. So my dad had to race all the way home to get my cleats and get back before the game started so I could play.
When I think about 2017, I feel like it was just another year. It was a whirlwind, but I wouldn’t have wanted it to play out any other way. I’m glad I was in New York. There’s nowhere else I would rather play, and there’s no other group of teammates that I would rather be around.
My dad told me, ‘If you’re going to go out there and play baseball, or you’re going to play basketball or football, work hard at it no matter what. I want you to have fun with your buddies, but you have to put in the time because this is your craft.’ He didn’t just want me to be good. He pushed me to that next level.
I think it was like, ‘I don’t look like you, Mom. I don’t look like you, Dad. Like, what’s going on here?’ They just kind of told me I was adopted. I was like, ‘OK, that’s fine with me.’
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.
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スライダーやカーブをうまく打てないから、つまり相手のミスを狙うだけです
You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.
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ピッチャーたちは私に合わせて調整してきます。それに対してどうするかは自分次第です
Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It’s up to me to come up with an answer.
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