Adam Dunn Quotations

What he did today with the wind blowing out here and against that lineup, that's pretty incredible. He keeps everybody off balance and it seems like we play really well behind him.

Since the All-Star game, we've been playing a little bit better. That's definitely a big reason why he's coming back.

Since I've been here, we haven't had this very often. We know if we score runs, we've got a pretty good chance to win.

Since I've been here, it doesn't happen very often. You go out there and know every time he's on the mound, you know what you're going to get. We know if we score, we've got a chance of winning that game.

If we're healthy we're as good as anyone. Hopefully we stay that way.

He was around every day. You hear all this stuff about him, but he's one of the best people I've ever met. If you're fortunate to be in his inner circle, it's great because you learn a lot about him.

He has his confidence back and it showed tonight.

He hit it and kind of looked like he knew what he was doing.

He has this big generator he's started once a year for like 20 years just for stuff like this,

He's going to throw a lot of strikes, and you know they'll usually put the ball in play. It's fun to play behind a guy that works quick like that.

He used to come into the weight room with about 35 of his people and work out. We talked about the football team and how I was doing and if I still live in the (Houston) area where I lived. It was small talk.

I think it's a great idea. It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at.

I thought the guy at second might tag up,

I think we've been a couple of players away for a while, ... I think we're still a couple of players away from not just being good, but being really good.

Our mind set for each game is to score as many runs as possible in any way we can. It just so happens we're getting them early. It takes a lot of pressure off our pitchers.

I wish we had put on a better display for him.

I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

We can put up runs. We're a team I don't think a lot of teams want to face with stuff on the line.

Yeah, I had it checked this week and the doctor said I should put a splint on it, but the heck with that.

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

To win a gold bracelet in Vegas at the World Series of Poker. Or to become a professional bass fisherman.

Every time I look up, a ball is gone. My neck gets sore.

I've been seeing lefthanders good all year. I know my numbers stink. I think I've been overly aggressive, trying to pull everything. I'm not doing anything different -- just hitting it more.

People assume I can't hit for average. I've hit for average all my life, until I got up here. It's not because I can't. It's because people have tried to get me to hit more homers. I'll hit even more home runs when I'm hitting the way I can.

You playing today, LaRue? What is it, a spot start?

They got it right. I thought they would. That's one of the best crews out there.

It's no secret that's what we need. They tried to (improve) it as best they could in as little time as they had.

It's going to devalue Tumwater in a major way. I don't want to see our whole community go down just because of a jail.

It's going to devalue Tumwater in a major way, ... I don't want to see our whole community go down just because of a jail.

That's one of the best crews out there. When I saw them huddling, I knew they were going to get it right. I think that's one of those plays that you see them not overturn it more than you see them overturn it. It was good to see them gather 'round and get it right.

That's one of the best crews out there. When I saw them huddle, I knew they were going to get it right.

That kind of stuff happens. I'm not going to go home and cry over it ... the home run. I don't even remember that. It was awesome, I guess.

That kind of stuff happens. I'm not going to go home and cry over it. Hopefully, I'll give them a lot more to cheer about than to boo about.

It looked like those pitches were right there.

It was a good visit, but it was tough to see. To see them laying there like that was hard. A lot of them were younger than me.

It was pretty bad. A couple of them I just misjudged. I'm not going to make excuses.

The instructor was pretty nice. We just goofed off the whole time and lifted weights.

I'm not making excuses, but I'm glad to be out of that place. It's big. Your depth perception gets thrown off. You're not used to playing in closed-in stadiums anymore. It looks like the ball's going 60 mph, then it's right on you. It's weird.

I knew they were going to get it right.

I hope so. I didn't think it was going to be like that for a while. But with new ownership coming in and it seems like they're committed to not just competing, but winning, I'm on board for that.

I obviously didn't want to go to arbitration, didn't want to have something like arbitration hanging over my head for the spring and the year. I'm glad everything worked out.

I didn't understand what I was doing. I just think it was one of those things that everyone goes through.

I can't wait to sit down and talk to them. They seem like people I can talk to. You know how it is with people in that position, but these guys seem as normal as can be.

He's got so many pitches he can throw for strikes,

The game is changing, man. It's developing. You've got to find new stuff.

The first couple of times you saw him in the spring, that was the emotional time. It's probably going to be more emotional for the fans.