100 Quotes by Jessica Mendoza

I always said this as an athlete, 'Practice like you're the worst player on the field. Play like you're the best.'

Embrace the fact that you are different, that your differences are what's going to make you great and your true friends are the ones who are going to love you for those differences.

I know I might be a little crazy, but I love working out. It has a way of lifting my mood like nothing else can.

Stanford opened up a whole different perspective for me. I learned how to take my own passions and apply them to so many different topics, to open up the way I saw things and own the things that made me unique.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

I grew up in a big Mexican family and... we always were so comfortable in our own skin. So society, the stuff that I think we see a lot now for young girls, didn't really reach me because I had this huge Mexican bubble around me saying, 'You're beautiful. You're amazing. You're strong. And be you.'

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

It's 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we're hearing female voices as much as we're hearing men's.