I was screaming, ‘No, no, no,’ and then, ‘That a boy, good job,’

I think this kid’s arm is there. This kid gives 200 innings every year, never misses a start. There’s a lot of good things that happened to him over his career, and I trust this...

It’s embarrassing to me. I don’t know if it is embarrassing to the players. It gets to the point where you are sick to your stomach. We are having terrible at-bats. … We just stink...

I don’t care if you play little league last year, you perform here, and open my eyes, we are going to keep you.

I know he has good enough stuff to beat any team in the league. It’s proven. Garland is different than the rest of the guys because when he doesn’t perform, it seems like he doesn’t...

For me he is the Jackie Robinson of Latin baseball. He lived racism. He was a man who was happy to be not only Puerto Rican, but Latin American. He let people know that. And...

He was different in the way he threw the ball (Wednesday).

It was big for Contreras because last year in spring training, he couldn’t find the strike zone. He came out of the gate the way he left [off in 2005].

It is not easy to go and face

It took the Minnesota Twins to make me think we have to change. I knew they don’t have any superstars, but they kept winning. When me and Kenny make the decision to change this team,...

I would say I was honored. Not too many people like the president. I do. My mom will kill me, but it’s an honor to talk to the president.

If I get to do it with this ballclub? Whoa, that’s going to be the best feeling ever.

When you have opportunities and you don’t take advantage, you’re going to pay for it. I think it was a pretty good ballgame. Garland threw the ball pretty good, Cotts and Politte threw the ball...

I don’t want to say anything bad about Vlad because I don’t want to wake him up. I think our pitching staff is doing a tremendous job all year long against him.

To me he wasn’t throwing good, … So that’s why I went to go get him right away.

I don’t want to embarrass the kid, but I want the big boy.

As soon as the ball went out of the park, obviously the team went out and I was looking around for Bobby. You don’t have to look twice because you can see him right away.

If you’re going to win this game, you got to make things happen.

There’s nothing better than to be around that man because he will teach you how to handle things on the field and off the field.

We were one pitch to get out of the inning, and we didn’t get it done.

He will know the league better. Last year he battled the league every day–he didn’t know the pitchers. Now he has one year under his belt. With a lot of confidence, he should have a...

To me, our pitching and our defense weren’t strong enough (in ’04), … Now we can win games 3-2 with a squeeze. Last year, it never went through my mind to squeeze.

No, I thought that one was funny. It’s true, though.

I’ve been involved in a lot of Opening Days, but this one was the best.

We didn’t pitch well at all, and that was the game.

He only had three outings with us in spring training. He’ll get better.

We’re hitting like crazy right now. It’s about time. In 2005, it was just pitching, pitching, pitching.

It was fun to watch him pitch here.