"I want to thank God first, my mom, my wife, my friends, all the people who help me to make all these things happen. Driving after the game in Kansas City back to my house, my mom talked to me how we can do to make people, to make families happy," Perez said during his acceptance speech.
"She knows where we're coming from. She knows how hard she worked to get everything I need to play this beautiful game. I get back home and talk to my mom, 'Yeah, let's start. Let's open up a foundation. Let's do some good things.' We know where we're coming from, but I don't want to sit here and talk about all the bad things. I just like to see what I can do to help, the key to make people happy. Super excited."
"I read a lot about Roberto Clemente and how he was an amazing player. Something that touched me is the way he helped people outside the field. So I want to thank you guys too for continuing to do that for every kid, every foundation. Just excited, excited to be here, excited for this award."
"I have to tell you, after winning a World Series, this is the second-best award I ever got. I got some Gold Gloves, Silver Slugger, World Series MVP, but this means a lot to me."
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