It wasn't the seventh game of the World Series, |
It's a good win for us. I'm glad that I was able to help my team out to win today. You don't want to try to do too much, get a good pitch to hit and put your best swing on it. |
It's a long season; just another home run; just another win. |
It's always big to take the lead. You send a message right away that we're ready to play. |
It's always nice to do something in front of your fans who support you all year long, ... [There are] 47,000 people up there cheering for you and giving you a standing ovation -- it's great -- but you can't get caught up in that. You need to make sure you get ready to go, and I'm pretty sure they will be pretty happy if we bring them a World Series championship. |
It's amazing, ... I don't think about the last four years. All I'm thinking about is today. Going into spring training, you don't try to win the MVP. All you're going to do is help out your team to win. If you can do that, this is the reward that you get after the season. |
It's amazing. I think you guys have a good taste of how crazy they are down in the Dominican. This is real big for our country. |
It's amazing. There were a lot of Latin people. I think you guys have a good taste of how crazy they are in the Dominican. They appreciate that. This is real big for our country and I'm pretty sure for Venezuela and the other Latin Americans ? even in the United States. |
It's awesome when you hear people compare you to Barry. He's the best player in the game right now. It'd be tough to put (up) those numbers. I don't try to compare myself with anybody. I don't get caught up. You're going to start taking things for granted. I just want to be myself and do the best player I can be. |
It's awesome when you hear people compare yourself to Barry, ... He's the best player in the game right now. |
It's awesome when you hear people compare yourself with Barry, |
It's awesome, but we got the win, and that's more important to me. All the credit today should go to Jason Marquis. |
It's been a great experience so far and some guys are so excited that they're saying we should play this ever year. I think this is going to be a great tournament and there won't be any negatives about it. More guys will want to play in it next time and it will keep getting bigger. |
It's been pretty tough the last week. I'm dealing with it. It has been getting worse as the game goes on. It was pretty tough today because we had a day game after a night game. You're playing twice in less than 10 hours. |
It's exciting having our people yelling. It takes me back to when I was playing down in the Dominican in Little League, having my parents and my friends yelling. It's great. |