Chase Utley Quotations

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.

I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us.

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

I don't really like the spotlight.

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

You try to take it game-to-game and keep working.

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

When you bust it down the line and don't get the hit, it's depressing.

Nobody should be satisfied in this game. Maybe Barry Bonds, but maybe even he wants to be better.

I guess it's all downhill from here, right?

Going around third base, I definitely slowed down a little bit, ... But it was still pretty exciting.

We have to be a little ahead of our usual schedule. Now we're ready to go.

It doesn't matter what happened in the past. It's all about the next three days.

I'm hearing it from all the guys. I expect to. I deserve it. I would give myself grief. If someone else did that, I'd tell them about it.

I was on the top step. I had a good feeling.

We were mounting a comeback, the crowd was intense and we were fired up at the time. I hit that ball really well, just not well enough. What are you going to do?

We put it to them late in the game, ... It was huge.

We put it all together, ... We still have three more to go. There's definitely still a shot. Obviously, we need a little help.

This, ... shows the fire of this team.

We were down in the game by a lot, but we still had that fire. We were rooting for him big time.

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Especially being in the middle of the lineup with Ryan behind me, if I get on base, that could be an easy two runs right there. We can definitely hit home runs, but you have to win games in other ways, too.

I still don't think we've clicked as an offense. We can still do a better job. We're all going to get going at some point.

I still don't think we've clicked as an offense. I think we can do a better job. If we all get going, it could be fun.

It was very exciting. I knew the game was out of reach at that point, but it was fun to watch. It's all about being positive and taking something out of a loss. We'll take that, relax on the day off and be ready for Wednesday.

It was weird seeing him in a different uniform. But it was nice to see him again.

Any loss like that is devastating. Especially with five games to go.

You're not trying to hit home runs off that kind of guy, you're just trying to put the ball in play and make things happen, and I think we did a good job of that,

It's a great place to hit. You can see the ball well, and it definitely travels. It's a big park, but it definitely travels well.

It's a great honor. You're going to see good pitchers earlier, so it should make you better. You have to prepare yourself a little bit more, but that makes you that much better in the long run. Guys have that intensity early.

It was good to see him. I forget even what I said, but it was good to see him.

I'm more excited than anything just to be around those guys, guys who are winners and are very successful. It will only help. They're winners, they've won batting titles.

I really wasn't sure what it was going to be like, but it was everything I expected. The intensity was up. We didn't play that well, but I'll take the experience. I know we haven't been to the playoffs, but we had a playoff run last year and it was intense then. It was very similar out there.

He's the guy that starts everything. He's a big part of our team.

He's not fun to face. I always thought he could do the job. Now that the time's come, he's going to do a great job. You never know what he's going to throw.

He pretty much matched Dontrelle for the most part and kept us in the game.

This is a great place to hit. There's a great (hitters') background, and the ball definitely travels. There are a lot of hits out there.