Only if we win, that's definitely an advantage to all of this. We don't have to answer any of those complacency questions. Those are out the window. |
Or by a home run by him. |
Our pitching has set the tone for us all season long. |
Our team was good. I don't think it was a Cinderella team. ... I thought we matched up well with teams. |
Our team, believe it or not, we got better in that game. This wasn't like last week. You play like that, it'll turn. We're on the right path, you can tell. |
Ozzie wanted to try to put his stamp on the team with some speed and more defense, and the overall attitude. There were no guarantees it would work. I didn't know if we were going to win, but I knew we weren't going to lose the same way. |
Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable. |
Right now we just want to get to bed. |
Since halfway through last year this guy has probably been the best pitcher in the major leagues. I don't think anyone's been better. I'm just glad I don't have to face him. He's nasty. On a cold night, you give him some runs to work with and he's going to be tough. |
That play that happened, you're not going to see that again probably for maybe as long as anybody lives. |
That's a man's save right there. |
That's a question for him. But I don't think anybody on our team is going into the game thinking we're going to get a free pass from Roger Clemens. I don't think that. He's going to be tougher. I'm sure if he had a broken leg he'd figure out how to get some people out. |
That's been the pattern all year, ... No matter how many runs we have, whether it's one or eight or nine, we never have a run we didn't need. At this point of the season, it doesn't matter how we won, it just matters we did it. |
That's really what managers go for anyway. Once you win the World Series as a manager, you go out with a bang. But first things first. We got to get to the playoffs. |
The Angels made it as hard as can be - everything they did was right. Once the best offers came in, it came down to where I feel comfortable playing. . . . It was tough. It was like dealing with two hometown teams, and whoever I said no to it was like I was letting down family. |