"Coming into the year, my goal was to be the best player and to make the most impact on the field. To be in the MVP talk with guys like Cabrera, it's an incredible feeling, a hard one to explain. When I made the All-Star team, that was a really a big moment of my career, and that's when all the rookie-of-the-year talk started. It really came on fast. I was having so much fun during the year, I didn't really think of the awards or the individual stuff. I was just trying to help the team win." Source: Los Angeles Times (11/13/2012, Mike DiGiovanna, 'Angels Mike Trout named American League rookie of the year', Source)

"At some point in the middle of the summer, as Mike Trout dominated the Majors in a manner not indicative of his age, it became basically a foregone conclusion that the Angels' center fielder would eventually win the American League's Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award. Really, the only question -- besides Most Valuable Player honors -- was whether it would be unanimous. It was." - By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com 11/12/2012, 'Trout a unanimous selection as AL ROY', Source)

"He's one of those guys who, when you're done playing, you're going to say, 'I played with Mike Trout. I was there when he got started.'" - Vernon Wells in The Los Angeles Times (02/08/2013, Kevin Baxter, 'Mike Trout's fame leads to quite a few claims in south New Jersey', Source)

"Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best." - Bryce Harper on MLB.com (Alden Gonzalez, 11/12/2012, 'Trout a unanimous selection as AL ROY', Source)

"Mike Trout is a humble, clean-shaven baseball prodigy from a small town in southern New Jersey. He works at Angel Stadium, three and a half miles from places called Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and Main Street, U.S.A. His story springs from all of them." - Sportswriter Tyler Kepner in The Los Angeles Times (06/22/2012, 'Mike Trout, the Angels’ Prodigy, Is Enjoying the Ride', Source)

Quotes From & About Mike Trout