I really didn’t know [about the milestones],

Every New Yorker, they love to see somebody face adversity and still stand tall and not fall by the wayside. They like to see you man up and you take your beating, but you just...

That kid is going to be good; he reminds me of Rocket. He’s young, but that fastball, it’s late. I don’t care what the radar gun says, it seems like it’s on top of you....

He’s a big part of this team offensively. Every guy in this lineup is an All-Star, and anytime you’re missing that big a piece of the puzzle, especially the way we’ve kind of got it...

You figured they would come back. They’re hot, we’re hot, so it should be a good series. You couldn’t ask for a better ending, no doubt about it.

We all knew it was only a matter of time before the offense started to come around. I think guys finally started to relax a little bit. Now we’re coming up with that big hit,...

A little surprised, yeah, … but I’ve been around Billy Beane a long time. I know at the beginning, he made some moves that weren’t very popular, but I understood where he was going. (Tim)...

I can’t get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I’ll be able to.

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we’re going to play the team that’s actually given us the most problems. We have...

That was huge, especially with them throwing up a four-spot in the first, … This is a big win for us, especially with the way we came back.

I really don’t know a lot about it. I don’t know what is going on. I have other things to worry about.

You don’t want to find yourself coming to the ballpark, giving away a win and then the next day, you get beat.

You couldn’t have done that without involving me?

Typical Moose, he turns it on and gets sharp after a few hits. He looked great. We need him to be huge this season and this is a great starting point.

It was nice that we got a win,

I’d probably have been a little more interested.

We’re going to win some games with our offense, no doubt about it. Our offense is too good not to win.

Even when I was struggling up there, I felt pretty good. I was getting good swings but I just wasn’t getting any hits.

There’s nothing more special than seeing excitement on a child’s face.

I was just trying to stay in my strike zone. I enjoy (multi-homer) games, it makes it fun. I’m just trying to stay locked in. This is the best I’ve felt in a couple years.

We always believed. We always thought we’d be here in the end and now we’re not going to let our comeback be wasted.

I think it’s cool. It lays out that we have a lot of personalities, but one common goal. We have 25 superstars who came here to get that opportunity to win.

That’s the way this team works. We score a lot of runs in one inning because we work pitchers and work walks and eventually there is no room to put anybody else.

It’s over and done with, and I’ve moved on,

I did the things I needed to do, took care of it and played last year and have just gone forward. I?m not really worried about it.

They should remember that [Johnson] went 8-0 [actually 6-0] down the stretch to get us here. Sometimes they can forget real fast around here. If he didn’t do what he did for us down the...

We have to win every single night, … We create our own destiny; it’s in our hands. If we win every night, we put the pressure on everybody else. We don’t have to depend on...

The just want to make sure I can hit first.

That was our big theory when I was with Oakland. Run up the guy’s pitch counts, ’cause then you get the starting pitcher out of the game in the fifth inning. You’re making him throw...

It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.

This has probably been the toughest year in my big-league career, trying to come back from everything.

You couldn’t ask for a better ending the Yankees and Red Sox for the last three games.

The game slows, … I don’t overanalyze. I just try to get a good pitch and hit it. Even when I cooled off after July, I was still taking good at-bats. I’m just trying to...

It’s pretty pathetic to drag my father into it. Give me a break.

I really didn’t know (about the milestones), … Actually, Joe’s the one who congratulated me. I said ‘For what? I know I haven’t had a hit for a while.’

There was one kid telling me he was going through all his medications and he couldn’t wait to go down and play video games. It definitely gives them something to look forward to.

I love playing in September. This is the fun time of the year, what you play the whole season for. You leave it all on the field, because if you don’t play in September, there...

Without the veteran ball club we have, we could have very easily gotten swept, especially against a pitcher like Brad. They beat Mo last night, and this could have turned into a disaster. You give...

I got a gift, he threw me a breaking ball and I just got the bat head to it. I hit it off the pole and Randy made it hold up. This was a big...

This was huge especially after the way they beat us yesterday. They don’t quit. It’s fortunate we kept adding on and didn’t let them come back.

I’ve known Wash probably longer than most of those kids in their clubhouse, … I just felt it was a little something I wanted to do.

It’s a fine romance, with no kisses.

That pitch just didn’t get away.

For being so young, he was just so poised. I just remember his mound presence for someone who was 23. He went out there and was dominating.

I feel it a little bit. It’s not pulling or anything. They’re happy with that.

The biggest thing is, my mind wanders.

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We’d look around and say the only way we’re going to lose is if guys aren’t playing [because they’re hurt].

We just couldn’t seem to get the big hit to break open games.

Make sure everybody knows I’m playing tomorrow,