We’re off to a pretty good start, but it is still April. Our approach is every day we’re trying to beat other teams.

A lot of people have done it for a month or, in my case, a lot of people have done it for a year and a half. But when we start doing it year after...

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You don’t want to step in gum. That’s my pet peeve. That should go in the garbage, for sure.

We’re going to need to find it real quick if we’re going to stay in this thing.

There’s going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That’s why it doesn’t matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Obviously it hurts us not having our big guys in there. Hopefully we get them back soon. But we have a lot of confidence in the guys we’re throwing out there. If we hit, we’re...

I think that right now it’s good to take baby steps. Obviously, the goal at hand is to win the division.

Arms and legs coming at you. He threw a solid game.

We wouldn’t want the housing to impact Lake Marie and the rest of the (lighthouse) park.

I was looking around the infield today and was excited to see what could be.

There’s just an energy level that gets kicked up a notch when Pedro pitches.

This one?s definitely on my shoulders and it?s a very humbling game.

We got a full head of steam with the momentum we got from that inning.

We’ve proven we can play on the road, and this will be a big test for us. We can either take advantage of this opportunity, and be right where we want to be, or dig...

He’s filthy. He locates the ball so well and he doesn’t make mistakes. He was incredible.

You look in the stands and you see grown men crying,

That was awesome. That’s what this team is all about. That’s what those guys we brought in through trades and free agent signings [are] all about.

I’ve been struggling a little bit lately. It’s good to get back in the groove.

It’s tough without any at-bats to go up there and expect to see the ball well. You’re cold, you took batting practice hours ago. Not only is there a lot of pressure, but you’re usually...

Look, I started off batting seventh last year, so to me it was great that Willie started trusting me, moving me up a little at a time. People tell me all the time, ‘You should...

Cliff? It’s like Clifford, the Big Red Dog!

The play I botched in the ninth has to be made. It was a battle and I let my teammates down.

He was fantastic. Obviously, it hurts us not having our big guys out there.

It’s nice to get hits like that. But right now I am happy just to get some good at-bats.

Well, as you might expect I’m not in your camp on this, Andrew.

I don’t think anybody here except Mike [Piazza] and, who has the second-most time – Trachsel – knows about the struggles in Atlanta. It’s not like the younger guys in this clubhouse come here scared...

Not yet. But bring it on. He’s probably playing for quarters. If he wants to play a real game, he can come see me.

It doesn’t matter what kind of haircut he has. It’s not going to make him look any better.

You run out of things to say about Pedro. As he goes, the rest of the team goes. Our energy level picks up a notch when he pitches.

We have to take baby steps before we can take giant leaps.

The next thing I’d like to experience, … is the playoffs in New York.

I don’t think it’s so much our offense as we’ve run into great pitchers,

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

This one is on my shoulders today. A couple of them were tough plays, but these are the big leagues. Tough plays have to be made.

No one’s going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

The fans here, obviously, are like the 10th man on the field for us.

Just because we started 8-2, that means nothing come September. But I think if you ask anybody in here, we’re pretty satisfied with how the first 10 games have gone. We’ve got to keep at...

Just the way we like it.

It’s just that we did have our chances and it would have been a good game to win.

We have all the right tools, all the right pieces. Now, the biggest goal is to get that chemistry, that cohesiveness, that we are playing for one another.

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I don’t think he got it in as much as he wanted to. He kind of left it over the plate and I put a nice, easy swing on it.

If we can come up with a good approach and show some changes, we’d be a role model.

That’s the biggest thing we were trying to get across is that we have all the right tools. The free-agent signings, the trades that have come over, we have all the right tools. We just...

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It started tailing, … I caught it cleanly, threw it cleanly.

It was just a good pitch that I tried to do too much with and popped up. I would hope that more times than not, I would hit that pitch a lot harder than I...