Clint Barmes Quotations

The way Eli started the inning off, I'm telling you right now, that's what started us all off.

It's always good to go home. But these guys will probably be able to push me a little bit more than Dad.

I've never walked. If I'm laying off balls, I might get some walks. But I don't go up looking for a walk. Never have. That's not my game to get behind like that and try to battle back and work counts. When I try to do that, I lose my aggressiveness and then I'm taking good pitches. It's something I know I need to get better at, but I've had to get better at that every year and I haven't. Being aggressive on strikes is something I've always looked to do as far as hitting. I feel like I've done well with that approach.

If I could do it all over again and I was going to get hurt, obviously, I'd rather do it on the field where everybody could see it and I wouldn't have to deal with everything and all the different stories that came out. It's a freak accident. It happened. I deal with it everyday. It comes up all the time, and I know it probably will for the rest of my career.

I went from as high as I could possibly be to as low as you could possibly be overnight.

We're not rookies anymore, and we've got a year under our belts. Every little bit counts as far as experience goes, and hopefully, every year we get a little bit better. This year, we're expecting to play better and for better things to happen.

So it didn't really surprise me a lot, ... that he's thrown that hard off the mound.

There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion. There's nothing to it. Hoffman got the best of me.

It's something I've done my whole life, just trying to put the ball in play. Most of the time it comes out is when I have two strikes. I get in a big hurry and swing at bad pitches.

I found a hole. That doesn't happen very often.