Jack Wilson Quotations

We're running into some tough pitchers. We've had some guys go out there and pitch great games against us.

We're playing good baseball. Man ... we just need something to fall.

Oliver did great, and we just didn't get the big hit for him. Oh, well.

Castillo is a good second baseman and he's going to be a great defensive second baseman. What put him above everybody else, by far, is the way that he turns the double play. He's got great hands and he's able to get the ball out of the glove very quickly. He also has an absolute cannon for an arm. Very rarely do you find a second baseman who has the best arm on the team. That guy does.

I'm a lot stronger now than I have been at any point this season,

He has just been awesome. It's no surprise to us.

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

I think it shows a lot about this team, this shows what we're capable of.

I think you do need leaders. Certain guys have a personality of being a leader. It's hard, because you need winners on your team, guys that have been there before. We have a couple of guys who have been to the World Series. But I think those are mostly pitchers.

Some guys look forward to their free agency years so they can go to a contender. To me, that's what I'm doing. I believe in what this team is doing.

I think last year was the first time we ever won a series here. It feels a little bit better coming here knowing that we've had some success.

Man, it's tough. You get to a certain point of your career where all you care about is winning. Your first couple years, you're trying to establish yourself. But then, you look around, see players retiring, and you're thinking, man, I'm going to be out of this game before I know it. You want to win. You want that feeling ...

That's the perfect situation you want: You have your two, three and four hitters coming up, and hopefully you can get someone on and let those guys have a chance to get the big hit.

You have to do something when they are giving something away or they'll throw all the boxes on the field, ... If they give something away and you have an 0-for, it's a pretty bad feeling.

We have a very young starting rotation and I think it's important that they know they can lean on our offense to score some runs and take some pressure off them.

To be considered a piece of the puzzle in the future of this team means a lot to me.

You look at our record the last five years and you knew it was pretty much inevitable.

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the time. Tonight, we got the big hits in the second game, and that's the one thing that's been eluding us the whole season.

We've been outhitting our opponents most of the times lately. We're just not getting the big hit. Tonight, we got the big hits in that second game. That's one thing that's been eluding us the whole season. We got a couple of them tonight.

We had a good season, we had fun, we won the Mason-Dixon Conference championship. But after that, we got on with the rest of our life.

We've been swinging the bats great lately. We've been outhitting most of our opponents. Most of the time we haven't been getting the big hits. Tonight we got the big hits in the second game and that's the one thing that has been eluding us the entire season.

The teams that are the best teams find a way to win when they don't have their best games. The offense finds a way to score runs. I think we haven't really grasped that idea yet.

You're thinking, 'Not again. But the good thing it isn't serious.

You can't look at our record right now -- it'll only put you in a bad mood. It's not like we've been playing horrible. We just can't put it together. That's how you become a losing team.

There is nothing you can say (to the fans). We just have to show them. They've been at this for 13 years. I've been at it for five. But if we keep on playing like we're playing, we're going to be fine.

This is the team they've spent money on. It's a good lineup. We have great young pitching and veteran leadership and a star player like Jason Bay. We have the team to make a move this year. We have the team to do it.

It's kind of different because you've never seen him pitch before, never played behind him,

It's exciting he didn't have his best stuff and he still kept us in the game.

It was awesome to watch a guy come up here in his major-league debut and do what he did.

It's one of those things where you have to keep playing. You can't look at your record right now because it's only going to put you in a bad mood.

It makes sense. I'll get a couple more rounds of BP and some more ground balls. I'll run on the treadmill to slowly but surely get up to a certain speed just to get some juice back.

It's like taking a shower in a raincoat! If the stoopid girls would just take the pill, or get a patch, I would be going to Harvard!

That's really unacceptable. That's the ball I want hit to me every time. To make that bad a throw, there is nothing anybody can do about that. That ended up costing us the game.

That's the bad part of baseball: If you're the manager, you're going to get all the blame. He ended up getting fired for what we didn't do. He was the kind of guy who demanded everything he could get out of you. We just didn't get it done, and our record shows that.

It's been tough for us, no question. I think we're a better team this year. We just have to go out and pitch well. If we throw a good game, we have a chance to beat them. We have the potential to hit and score some runs.

It was a good one. We have that type of line-up that every now and then can put some over the fence. We got some good offense. We needed some big hits and that's what we got.

I've had some problems with throwing problems early, but it happens. It's like anything. You've just got to get through it and do some more field work. I'm not worried about it. I think I just need to get comfortable again.

It's very important for me to do well as the No. 2 guy. It's where I feel the most comfortable, and I take a lot of pride in it, especially with Sean Casey , Jason Bay and Jeromy Burnitz behind me. If I go 0 for 3 and move the runner over three times, I had a pretty good day.

They believe in themselves, ... For some of us, that's been kind of hard to do over the past few years. We're feeding off them.

I guess you just keep on going out there every day.

Being able to handle a 34, my swing will be a lot quicker when I go back to 33. I'll be able to lift the ball more and spray the ball around the field. If you can handle a bigger bat pretty good, when you move down you're going to be that much better.

He's our Bill Mueller . Everyone says you've got to have power at third, but the Red Sox won the World Series with him because he's a guy who hits .300 and plays great defense. That's exactly what Freddy is. He'll hit .300 if he plays everyday, and he'll get you 10-15 home runs.

Honestly, raising my average to where it is now has probably been the biggest up-hill battle of my career. I just want to finish as high as I can and put the start to this season behind me.

He threw the ball well for a guy making his debut and not pitching for a while. I think he'll really help them down the stretch.

You could tell he thought it was the third out. I don't think it was a bad play to go for it. But Eckstein made a good play.

The guy was dominant today. You're going to run into some pitchers that just have great stuff that day.

You've got to keep playing, you know? You can't look at your record right now because it's only going to put you in a bad mood. It's just a matter of going back out there every day and, slowly, you get back to where you need to be.

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