It's a big-league stadium. Give us big-league lights. Everybody in the top deck had their cigarette lighters out. |
It's a good move if it works out, it's a bad move if it doesn't work out, ... So, it worked out. |
It's a good omen that he can pick up a win when he doesn't have his really good stuff. He'll get his 20. You can put money on that. |
It's a nice honor, ... but what the hell? That just goes to show I've been around a while and I've had good players who helped me get there. |
It's a tough racket. Sometimes you look like a genius. Next time you look like a bum. |
It's always tough. Our hopes were high and you expect a lot of things the way they happened in the past, and they didn't happen. |
It's like making a trade. |
It's like your kids. They don't do everything you like, and you have to chat with them. He's a great kid. He's young. In general, with young kids, you've got to tell them the right way to do things. |
It's much tougher to win 20 games with the advent of closers and setup men. You're paying a lot of money for these guys to be setup guys and closers. |
It's nice when your pitcher can take you deep. We're trying to get him not to go for the fences, to hit the line drives. |
It's probably going to mean driving my tractor back home [in North Carolina] and smoking cigars. |
It's something he's had off and on the last two or so starts, ... We told him to give us six good innings. |
It's tough when you have a well-pitched game and play like 'The Bad News Bears' for an one inning. |
It's tough. It shouldn't be [like that], but it is. You're getting in these 2-1 games and you never have anyone to pop one out and give a two- or three-run cushion. Every game it's magnified because one mistake by [the bullpen] and you're out of the game. |
Like the old saying goes - the harder it goes in, the harder it goes out. |