Don Buford Quotations

(Barthelemy) hit a hanging curve for his home run. The next home run came on a fastball on a 3-2 pitch. With a base open you would normally throw something in the dirt. But that comes from learning.

If (a change in the rotation) happens, it will come from upstairs. No question, Shaver was outstanding.

I think if you win 20 in a row, that's hot. We're just trying to go game-to-game.

We didn't get off to a good start with (pitching). We gave up too many runs right away. It makes it a little hard. Hopefully all the nervousness will be gone and we'll be productive.

Every loss is tough. But we were in all the ball games. We had a chance in every game.

Apparently that's the time to play. If we play as well as we did today, I'll play all of them starting at 10:35.

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

This is a plus for the Cubs to get Pierre. He's a young man who runs hard all the time and plays hard all the time. He's willing to learn and very dedicated to improving himself. It makes it easy to work with a person like that. I'm looking forward to that. He's a good young man.

It's an individual thing. You have to want to do it in order to do it, No. 1. To be successful at it, you have to work at it and put in a little more effort. You have to put in some extra time. He certainly seems dedicated to doing that. There are a couple other young men who I've talked to who are that way.

It was on a line, so it probably didn't go as far as it could have if it was up in the air more. But he hit it well.

I'm a new rookie. When you're a rookie, you start all over and you have that excitement and energy.