Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara, better known as Albert Pujols, is a Dominican American professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the St. Louis Cardinals, where he received three National LeagueMVP awardsand was a nine-time MLB All-Star. He was also an All-Star with the Angels in 2015...
NationalityDominican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth16 January 1980
CitySanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
CountryDominica
There's three things that as a professional athlete you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and I accomplished that. Winning a World Series ring, I got that. And then getting to the Hall of Fame. That's everybody's dream. Every athlete, they want to be up there in the Hall of Fame, mentioned with the greatest players to ever play this game.
Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.
A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.
What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.
I never take things for granted. I always look to help out me teammates, to win and be better.
I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.
You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.
People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.
There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.
I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.
I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.
Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.
If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.
I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.