[Saturday] night, we got whacked. Today, David just held them down. Don’t let that team fool you. They can hit. If you make a mistake against them, any one of those guys will hurt you.

I just want to challenge baseball people to come out and do something for these people. These people really need our help. All of us make enough money to donate something. Let’s put it together...

We have to pick each other up. Our pitching, they’ve been up and down. They pick us up a lot. We need to do the same thing. It’s not like they want to give it...

It’s quiet, man. Last year, Millar would have been busting on me right now.

What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody.

Don’t believe anyone until it’s (signed). I’ll let you know when I do.

When you walk to the plate like that and the crowd is screaming like that, … it makes you feel like Superman.

I showed people that it’s not about guessing what people can do. It’s about saying, ‘Here, show me what you can do.’

It’s the 11th inning, man. You got to bring your ‘A’ game, like I always say. Against those guys, you can’t take your chances. They’ve been coming back on us the whole season.

I ain’t going to beat everybody. If I’m a pitcher, I would take no chance with Manny [ Ramirez ]. Manny is a box full of surprises. He’s very excited right now. He’s very into...

We’re still on top. The problem is when you go under.

We have the future Roger Clemens in the house, … That kid, man, I’ll tell you, this guy is something else.

I’ve been here four years and that is the best team they’ve had.

You had to hit it good with the wind blowing like 100 miles an hour.

When I have in my mind that you have a good fastball, it doesn’t matter how nasty you are with some of the other pitches,

I can’t believe my boy [Arroyo] is gone. [But] I’ve never seen a guy hit a ball harder than that guy [Pena]. … No, not even [me]. He’s 24 years old, he’s just a baby....

To win ballgames, you need both, … The game situations will tell you what you need.

That’s him, man. That’s the Manny everybody knows.

The last time they were here, we went back to my house, … We hung out together. He was telling me, `I remember when we were coming up with Seattle.’ Alex, when he got to...

I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing wrong with being famous. I guess that some guys are a little bit afraid. If you don’t want to be famous, just step away. Other people are afraid to...

Johnny Pesky told me nobody hit the ball harder than Williams,

He was all right. He got away with some mistakes.

No doubt. August took forever.

Hopefully it will get better before we start playing.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I don’t want to worry, now that we’re in the season. That’s my work, right there. We didn’t get anything done in spring training, I guess. You know how it is.

I heard he was going to the dugout. If you go off the field you’re out? There’d be a lot of football players coming out of our dugout.

Through the years I’ve been getting better and better and better, and it’s what you learn though the seasons.

I’m just trying to break the rules,

They wouldn’t be celebrating right now without Mariano.

Dude, are you going to be talking all day?

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I...

I’ve been here four years and that might be the best team I’ve seen that they have.

I think Manny?s been hanging out with Ricky Williams.

That ball wasn’t even close to Ted Williams’ seat back there. That kind of got me frustrated. You know, you hit the ball like that and you’ve still got to go 25 more rows up...

I know what happened [in Boston]. It was playing time and more at-bats. You can’t make something happen from the bench. You have to be on the field.

Wakefield’s a guy who you don’t really want to face right now. The guy gets you off. I don’t think it’s a good idea to hit against him right now.

I knew he has a good fastball. I wasn’t giving up on his fastball.

He said he was going to quit. He wasn’t going to play baseball anymore. The organization was going crazy, because you don’t want a guy like that on the bench sitting. What they did, they...

Alex is a great guy, man, … Everybody knows that he’s very talented. Alex has a great personality. I have a lot of respect for Alex. Alex is very interesting when you sit down and...

I’m getting pitches to hit and swinging. Once you get your pitch, keep swinging,

I felt terrible when I struck out.

They’re trying. We know they’re trying. They’re going to step up for us.

Just hit every day, keep working. It’s timing. I don’t like to try to pull too much, because when I’m off like that, I basically look forward to getting jammed more than trying to hit...

I swing hard all the time. That’s what I’ve done my whole life – hit.

I saw him pitching the last game he pitched in spring training and it was obvious he was right back where he likes to be. I saw him making his pitches, doing his thing. He...

Let me tell you, they swing the bats good, like we do. We have to get our pitching together and come out and do what everybody knows we can do. We can’t go to October...

We’ve got to be ready. They’re trying. I’m pretty sure they’re going to step up when we really need them. At the right time, I bet you they’ll be out there for us.

This means a lot because Edgar was one of the best hitters I’ve ever seen.

Pretty much we always start that way. I don’t know why.