When I came back, my knee started hurting me. If I do the running and the exercises, it will help me better for a long time. |
When I hit that ball, I thought I had a shot, but we are in Washington, so I had to run. Who knows what could have happened after that. The bottom line is that we lost tonight. |
When you have a group of guys the talent that we have here it's getting old definitely. We expect people to do the job on a consistent basis. Maybe one day we do it but we go out three days without doing it. |
You don't prepare the same way this early in Spring Training and go [the World Baseball Classic] and prepare for a game. I thought about it a long time, and I thought it was best for me to stay here. We felt the same thing about Ayala. Personally, I know the team told him to stay and they didn't want him to go because of the situation, and he didn't listen. Hopefully, he learns from this. |
You know what? The way [baseball officials] are letting this thing go, I don't think they care. If they would have cared about us, I think they would have made the decision at the end of last year, when they saw what we went through. |
You know, ... sometimes it's good that you don't have all those eyes on you. |
You've got to get a lot of things out of your head when you are hurt year in and year out. You go back and have the same injury again, that stays in your head. I was able to overcome all of that. Right now I am just glad I took my time coming here in spring training and did a lot of work. |