Skip to content

Portrait of Chase Utley

Chase Utley

(1978) Baseball Player

20 quotes in 103 categories

Chase Utley is a baseball player, best known for Conversations with Coach Wooden.

Quick Facts About Chase Utley

Born: December 17, 1978
Profession: Baseball Player
Notable works: Conversations with Coach Wooden

About Chase Utley

Chase Cameron Utley, nicknamed "the Man" and "Silver Fox," is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 16 seasons, primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies. He also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is a six-time All-Star, won a World Series with the Phillies in 2008, and was chosen as the second baseman on the Sports Illustrated All-Decade Team for the 2000s. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Chase Utley

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

Barrels

Image

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

Games

Image

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

Behinds

Image

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

Bats

Image

I don't really like the spotlight.

Spotlight

Image

Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now…

Bits

Image

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener…

Gone

Image

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

Cliche

Image

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as…

Bats

Image

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to…

Easier

Image

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

Bats

Image

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about…

Goal

Image

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you…

Baseball

Image

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of…

Elites

Image

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be…

College

Image

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our…

Ifs

Image

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but…

Bats

Image

I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time…

Can do

Image

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to…

Fun

Image

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had…

Harder

Image