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Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he'...
ELLIOTT AVENT His fastball command was a little erratic, but the command on his offspeed pitches was there, and hi...
MIKE SCIOSCIA He kept his pitch count down, he had pretty good command. He always has good command of his pitching...
ERIC NIESLANIK It only took him 100-something swings, ... But the last one looked good. He got it out.
JEFF NELSON He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had ...
MIKE HARGROVE He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of g...
AL AVILA I got some good pitches to hit and put good swings on them. Good things happened.
ALBERTO CONCEPCION He was dominant, and we told him, when he gets ahead of hitters, he's going to be dominant. He was a...
MIKE LIEBDZINSKI Josh battled out there for his first game. We kept him at 70 pitches. He didn't get in too much trou...
TIM WILLIAMS I was a little surprised with how our pitching went in that first game. Chad threw a good game but j...
ERIC MCARTHUR They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will n...
JACK CADE He was in the zone with three pitches. Even the one ball that was hit really shouldn't have been swu...
SMOKE LAVAL I had no idea he was this good as a complete player, at the plate and on the mound. We're very lucky...
DRU MAHONEY He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found...
BOB SCHAEFER He was so comfortable. He finished out good, but the other horse drew away from us. Nobody else real...
BRICE BLANC![]()
Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump...
TONY LA RUSSA He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him....
CHRIS CHANEY That was the momentum swing. He made that huge save on a good call for the penalty shot. They boys r...
CRAIG BIONI He did a good job of making pitches when he needed to. We'd like to see him pitch ahead a bit more. ...
PHIL GARNER It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling.
RUSS ADAMS I got on him pretty hard to get the ball where he needed to get it and he really came through. He wa...
JASON KERR This was about an identical performance to the one we had against (Houston County). To come out and ...
BILL BEATTY Any time I take the mound, Alex is a dangerous guy. It's not the first time he's gotten me, and it w...
BARTOLO COLON Woody was great, ... He did a terrific job. He was getting up there in pitches. He had good command,...
BRUCE BOCHY His pitches had gotten up and certainly we did not want him to extend any further than he had extend...
LLOYD MCCLENDON We've got him in there and playing outfield because of the way he hits it. He's made the adjustment ...
DANNY SCHOONOVER He just makes pitches when he has to. He's got that slider that sometimes looks invisible to hitters...
JOHNNY ESTRADA Patrick didn't have his best stuff. He fought for us, but he didn't have his best stuff. They put a ...
COREY LEWIS He was never, ever anything but humble, good character, the perfect role model - all those kind of t...
WAYNE WILLIAMS I asked him where he got to and he said probably 80 per cent. Just seeing him actually on a mound ag...
BRAD ARNSBERG He threw the ball good today. I remember facing him when he was in Toronto. He's a competitor. He th...
DAMIAN MILLER The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been bette...
MIKE HARGROVE The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th...
BOBBY BURTON [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ...
BOB SCHAEFER He got out there and did what we asked him to do. We had a good plan going in. He had a great first ...
COOPER FARRIS That was the best pitching I've seen from him. He had a lot of control, a lot of command. He had a g...
JUAN CASTRO Frederick threw well, located his pitches well. He was in total command of the strike zone.
STEVE GRELLER Outstanding. I mean, outstanding. I said it all along. ... You know, Joe [Cannon] is one of the grea...
FERNANDO CLAVIJO He's an offensive player. He was on with his shooting and he was playing good defense. He's got a sh...
JOE KILLILEA Matt said he had good movement. (His pitches) normally will drop. I've got two good pitchers, and I ...
HANK ZIZZI Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life t...
BOB SCOTT Santana did what he does best, he's a good pitcher and we were waiting for him to come back [out]. B...
FREDERICH CEPEDA He didn't have command of his pitches like in other games, but he battled and pitched well in tough ...
JOE HUGHES He's got really good leadership at home. His mom and dad are good people and they push him hard in a...
JASON MCLAUGHLIN Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80...
AARON NIECKULA Vlad has had some stretches occasionally where hits haven't fallen in. But he's the type of hitter t...
MIKE SCIOSCIA It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER I think we saw the result of not pitching in a game. Even at that, they only got two hits off him. B...
MIKE HARGROVE That was the best game I've seen him play in the three years that I've seen him play. He played very...
JOE MUNIZ Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches....
BRUCE BROBST They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR If he throws that many pitches going into the sixth inning, that's nice. He should be ready for seve...
JOE MADDON We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA When you can score early, it takes away the pressure. We just went up there and got good pitches to ...
CRAIG NICHOLSON I've got a lot of people who have promised me that they will give him a good shot at Hollywood Park....
ROGER OLGUIN He said if it would've been anybody other than the defensive back he would've slid, but he figured h...
JEFF FISHER Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so m...
JAVY LOPEZ I thought I had good defense on him. But he got under my arm and made the shot.
CHASTAIN DICKENS When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a go...
JASON HORNE Westbrook battled his tail off out there, ... They didn't make it easy on him, either. He made big p...
ERIC WEDGE![]()
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD![]()
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified....
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He's an outstanding goalie and you really have to work against him. They have two very good goalies ...
MALCOLM CAMERON We knew we had to get him involved. They had him locked down pretty good in the first half, and they...
CHAD CLUVER You see him before the game and after the game, and he's got more bags of ice on him than anybody. H...
CARSON PALMER When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had w...
CHRISTOPHER REED Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY He did a good job of controlling his rebounds. That was good for him and good for the team. I think ...
GREG PUHALSKI He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball and then cutting all ...
CHAD MOELLER I think our kids started going after some bad pitches. And some of the kids didn't swing at (good) p...
BOB COOLEN I've watched him from afar and been very excited with him. He was outstanding on loan at Wolves. I t...
PAUL STURROCK He was about 10 to 12 weeks old and his left eye was swollen three times its normal size. It was so ...
CONNIE MAUTE I was surprised at how far back he was. I would have liked to have been a lot closer, but they were ...
ALEX SOLIS They wanted to meet with the senators and they had all of their people together in one location and ...
JAMES PENDLETON He had electric stuff, throwing the curveball in any count his fastball had good movement on it. It ...
GREG DOBBS They said they got to him right away, they pulled him out. He just looked over, smiled, that was it....
DAVE ROWE He's a kid that's got four pitches for strikes. When you can do that you can be effective. You have ...
JOE HUDAK Vick is different than every other quarterback we've faced. Vick is one guy and of course, you've go...
WILLIE MCGINEST He's one of those kids that the longer the game goes on he just seems to get stronger. He was a litt...
DEREK DOUGAN I didn't feel as good in Toronto, but I didn't feel lost at the plate like I had before. I didn't sw...
JUSTIN MORNEAU You're not going to see that guy mad ? at all. A lot of people know Santana for what he does on the ...
CARLOS SILVA He had a pretty angle to all his pitches, although his command within the strike zone wasn't very go...
GUY HANSEN He's a solid pitcher and did a good job. He pitches a little harder than most guys and we made the m...
DARRYL BAKER Myers was very poised on the mound and had excellent control of all of his pitches.
DAN KAISER He's got the middle of the order guys behind him. Plate discipline and what you swing at is extremel...
BILL GEIVETT![]()
From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't co...
DEREK JETER I was just trying to attack him, especially after the error. I got strike one on him but he just stu...
ANDY GRAHAM They've pitched him tougher, ... I mean, they've made a lot of good pitches on him lately, you know....
ERIC WEDGE J.J. was sensational once we found him. We did not do a good job of finding him at first, but once w...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I don't think we should ever lose a game on Friday night with (Lincoln) on the mound. They don't get...
JAKE STEWART He got the number of pitches he needed. He didn't look bad. That one inning, he was scattering a lit...
JOHN GIBBONS He played the good ole' boy role and didn't go against them although he was already outvoted. He has...
CYNTHIA MADDOX With Ryan Bohanan, the way he swings the bat makes him an awfully good option,
MIKE ANDERSON We got some good swings; they were just right at them. We've seen some good pitching this year, but ...
BEN JONES We had three very good pitches for the series against England (last month) and I believe good pitche...
BOB WOOLMER (Griffey) is probably the best hitter in baseball and we didn't make good pitches to him. When we di...
LLOYD MCCLENDON A lot of kids go to schools bigger than where they can play at and sit on the bench. They want him t...
MARK NOLD I'm sitting [in the dugout] thinking that we've got the best closer in the game on the mound, but we...
CHRIS CARPENTER He has the mentality. He's been a closer his entire career, and nothing affects him a whole lot. But...
MARC GUSTAFSON I just had command of three pitches. My secondary pitches, like the curveball and change-up, I threw...
ERIK BEDARD
ELLIOTT AVENT His fastball command was a little erratic, but the command on his offspeed pitches was there, and hi...
MIKE SCIOSCIA He kept his pitch count down, he had pretty good command. He always has good command of his pitching...
ERIC NIESLANIK It only took him 100-something swings, ... But the last one looked good. He got it out.
JEFF NELSON He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had ...
MIKE HARGROVE He knows the strike zone, makes a lot of contact and doesn't swing at bad pitches. He has a lot of g...
AL AVILA I got some good pitches to hit and put good swings on them. Good things happened.
ALBERTO CONCEPCION He was dominant, and we told him, when he gets ahead of hitters, he's going to be dominant. He was a...
MIKE LIEBDZINSKI Josh battled out there for his first game. We kept him at 70 pitches. He didn't get in too much trou...
TIM WILLIAMS I was a little surprised with how our pitching went in that first game. Chad threw a good game but j...
ERIC MCARTHUR They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will n...
JACK CADE He was in the zone with three pitches. Even the one ball that was hit really shouldn't have been swu...
SMOKE LAVAL I had no idea he was this good as a complete player, at the plate and on the mound. We're very lucky...
DRU MAHONEY He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found...
BOB SCHAEFER He was so comfortable. He finished out good, but the other horse drew away from us. Nobody else real...
BRICE BLANC
Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump... TONY LA RUSSA He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him....
CHRIS CHANEY That was the momentum swing. He made that huge save on a good call for the penalty shot. They boys r...
CRAIG BIONI He did a good job of making pitches when he needed to. We'd like to see him pitch ahead a bit more. ...
PHIL GARNER It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling.
RUSS ADAMS I got on him pretty hard to get the ball where he needed to get it and he really came through. He wa...
JASON KERR This was about an identical performance to the one we had against (Houston County). To come out and ...
BILL BEATTY Any time I take the mound, Alex is a dangerous guy. It's not the first time he's gotten me, and it w...
BARTOLO COLON Woody was great, ... He did a terrific job. He was getting up there in pitches. He had good command,...
BRUCE BOCHY His pitches had gotten up and certainly we did not want him to extend any further than he had extend...
LLOYD MCCLENDON We've got him in there and playing outfield because of the way he hits it. He's made the adjustment ...
DANNY SCHOONOVER He just makes pitches when he has to. He's got that slider that sometimes looks invisible to hitters...
JOHNNY ESTRADA Patrick didn't have his best stuff. He fought for us, but he didn't have his best stuff. They put a ...
COREY LEWIS He was never, ever anything but humble, good character, the perfect role model - all those kind of t...
WAYNE WILLIAMS I asked him where he got to and he said probably 80 per cent. Just seeing him actually on a mound ag...
BRAD ARNSBERG He threw the ball good today. I remember facing him when he was in Toronto. He's a competitor. He th...
DAMIAN MILLER The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been bette...
MIKE HARGROVE The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th...
BOBBY BURTON [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ...
BOB SCHAEFER He got out there and did what we asked him to do. We had a good plan going in. He had a great first ...
COOPER FARRIS That was the best pitching I've seen from him. He had a lot of control, a lot of command. He had a g...
JUAN CASTRO Frederick threw well, located his pitches well. He was in total command of the strike zone.
STEVE GRELLER Outstanding. I mean, outstanding. I said it all along. ... You know, Joe [Cannon] is one of the grea...
FERNANDO CLAVIJO He's an offensive player. He was on with his shooting and he was playing good defense. He's got a sh...
JOE KILLILEA Matt said he had good movement. (His pitches) normally will drop. I've got two good pitchers, and I ...
HANK ZIZZI Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life t...
BOB SCOTT Santana did what he does best, he's a good pitcher and we were waiting for him to come back [out]. B...
FREDERICH CEPEDA He didn't have command of his pitches like in other games, but he battled and pitched well in tough ...
JOE HUGHES He's got really good leadership at home. His mom and dad are good people and they push him hard in a...
JASON MCLAUGHLIN Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80...
AARON NIECKULA Vlad has had some stretches occasionally where hits haven't fallen in. But he's the type of hitter t...
MIKE SCIOSCIA It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER I think we saw the result of not pitching in a game. Even at that, they only got two hits off him. B...
MIKE HARGROVE That was the best game I've seen him play in the three years that I've seen him play. He played very...
JOE MUNIZ Shane really gutted it out. That is the longest he has pitched for us and we had him for 75 pitches....
BRUCE BROBST They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR If he throws that many pitches going into the sixth inning, that's nice. He should be ready for seve...
JOE MADDON We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA When you can score early, it takes away the pressure. We just went up there and got good pitches to ...
CRAIG NICHOLSON I've got a lot of people who have promised me that they will give him a good shot at Hollywood Park....
ROGER OLGUIN He said if it would've been anybody other than the defensive back he would've slid, but he figured h...
JEFF FISHER Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so m...
JAVY LOPEZ I thought I had good defense on him. But he got under my arm and made the shot.
CHASTAIN DICKENS When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a go...
JASON HORNE Westbrook battled his tail off out there, ... They didn't make it easy on him, either. He made big p...
ERIC WEDGE
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He's an outstanding goalie and you really have to work against him. They have two very good goalies ...
MALCOLM CAMERON We knew we had to get him involved. They had him locked down pretty good in the first half, and they...
CHAD CLUVER You see him before the game and after the game, and he's got more bags of ice on him than anybody. H...
CARSON PALMER When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had w...
CHRISTOPHER REED Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY He did a good job of controlling his rebounds. That was good for him and good for the team. I think ...
GREG PUHALSKI He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball and then cutting all ...
CHAD MOELLER I think our kids started going after some bad pitches. And some of the kids didn't swing at (good) p...
BOB COOLEN I've watched him from afar and been very excited with him. He was outstanding on loan at Wolves. I t...
PAUL STURROCK He was about 10 to 12 weeks old and his left eye was swollen three times its normal size. It was so ...
CONNIE MAUTE I was surprised at how far back he was. I would have liked to have been a lot closer, but they were ...
ALEX SOLIS They wanted to meet with the senators and they had all of their people together in one location and ...
JAMES PENDLETON He had electric stuff, throwing the curveball in any count his fastball had good movement on it. It ...
GREG DOBBS They said they got to him right away, they pulled him out. He just looked over, smiled, that was it....
DAVE ROWE He's a kid that's got four pitches for strikes. When you can do that you can be effective. You have ...
JOE HUDAK Vick is different than every other quarterback we've faced. Vick is one guy and of course, you've go...
WILLIE MCGINEST He's one of those kids that the longer the game goes on he just seems to get stronger. He was a litt...
DEREK DOUGAN I didn't feel as good in Toronto, but I didn't feel lost at the plate like I had before. I didn't sw...
JUSTIN MORNEAU You're not going to see that guy mad ? at all. A lot of people know Santana for what he does on the ...
CARLOS SILVA He had a pretty angle to all his pitches, although his command within the strike zone wasn't very go...
GUY HANSEN He's a solid pitcher and did a good job. He pitches a little harder than most guys and we made the m...
DARRYL BAKER Myers was very poised on the mound and had excellent control of all of his pitches.
DAN KAISER He's got the middle of the order guys behind him. Plate discipline and what you swing at is extremel...
BILL GEIVETT
From playing with him, if you don't capitalize on him early he gets stronger. You hope it doesn't co... DEREK JETER I was just trying to attack him, especially after the error. I got strike one on him but he just stu...
ANDY GRAHAM They've pitched him tougher, ... I mean, they've made a lot of good pitches on him lately, you know....
ERIC WEDGE J.J. was sensational once we found him. We did not do a good job of finding him at first, but once w...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I don't think we should ever lose a game on Friday night with (Lincoln) on the mound. They don't get...
JAKE STEWART He got the number of pitches he needed. He didn't look bad. That one inning, he was scattering a lit...
JOHN GIBBONS He played the good ole' boy role and didn't go against them although he was already outvoted. He has...
CYNTHIA MADDOX With Ryan Bohanan, the way he swings the bat makes him an awfully good option,
MIKE ANDERSON We got some good swings; they were just right at them. We've seen some good pitching this year, but ...
BEN JONES We had three very good pitches for the series against England (last month) and I believe good pitche...
BOB WOOLMER (Griffey) is probably the best hitter in baseball and we didn't make good pitches to him. When we di...
LLOYD MCCLENDON A lot of kids go to schools bigger than where they can play at and sit on the bench. They want him t...
MARK NOLD I'm sitting [in the dugout] thinking that we've got the best closer in the game on the mound, but we...
CHRIS CARPENTER He has the mentality. He's been a closer his entire career, and nothing affects him a whole lot. But...
MARC GUSTAFSON I just had command of three pitches. My secondary pitches, like the curveball and change-up, I threw...
ERIK BEDARD
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There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail aro... 
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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends. 
I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. 
Football is unconditional love. 
My favorite meal has always been fried chicken. 
The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. 
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Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions. 
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. 
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. 
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