Gabe Kapler

Baseball Player

1975-07-31

Quotes by Gabe Kapler

• I think the players set the tone right away in spring training.

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• The squat is ideal for building strength in the glutes, perhaps the most powerful collection of muscles in our bodies.

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• Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it's over.

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• Watching Clayton Kershaw in the very first game of the 2014 season, I realized that he's not overpowering; he's deceptive. It's the sum of his parts that makes the Los Angeles Dodgers ace baseball's most successful pitcher.

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• Not only do squats build muscle in the quadriceps, hamstrings and calves, they also allow for the release of testosterone and growth hormone providing a highly anabolic environment for all other areas to grow when trained.

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• Throwing on a hoodie and headphones and getting lost in a long run is pure freedom for me. I embrace the trance, the intense sweat and, of course, the endorphin release.

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• Despite the perception, players possess little free time in the cities they frequent on the road. They spend an extraordinarily unbalanced percentage of their time traveling to and at the ballpark.

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• The stress of not allowing yourself life's guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging.

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• On top of the highly variable necessary attributes to perform in each sport, human beings are like snowflakes; no two are alike.

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• When a ball is struck with more velocity and at the right angle to create the most distance, you end up with a bomb.

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• Young and wiry pitchers allow for the opportunity to add muscle, which often leads to improved velocity.

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• If you've been apartment or home shopping and left disgusted because a realtor brought you into a space that hadn't been updated since 1977, you've experienced the visitors clubhouse at Wrigley. Ceilings on top of you, lockers smashed together, plastic tables cluttering the floor and carpet ripped straight off the Brady Bunch stairs.

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• If Coors Field is the flashy youngster, Wrigley is a wise and weathered, tattered, beat up old man, but rich in charisma and character.

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• Wrigley, beyond its status as a baseball icon, has an undeniable positive energy all its own, which penetrates all who enter its gates.

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• Brimming with fortitude, Wrigley wears its ability to brave the elements like a badge of honor. More so than any other ballpark in America, it has witnessed blizzards and subzero temperatures. More importantly, it stands as testament to decades of suffering fans, their pain littered throughout the seats and corridors.

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• I can remember being in right field in Yankee Stadium and fans armed with media guides called out my family by their names and said absolutely unrepeatable things. I laughed to myself and it never bothered me.

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