Ryan Howard

Wayne, Jon, and the SeventySix Capital team are best in class and committed to building successful companies. Together, by leveraging the full weight of our knowledge, expertise and relationships, we can make a huge impact at home in Philadelphia and around the world.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

All you can do is just make the most of what you've got. You try to make the most of where you are to get back to where it is that you want to be.

I'm cool with everybody. The fans have been nothing but nice to me.

Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it's the path that I'm on, the journey that I'm on.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

Ron Howard is the family patriarch. When he gave orders, directions, or suggestions to family members, they were not to be questioned. It was considered wrong to disagree with him.

If someone throws something, we're just supposed to sit there and wear it and get hit. Nah, man, we're human beings first and foremost.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'

The first time I saw Werth in a Nationals uniform, it was like, 'Dude, this is weird'.

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.