Mark Kotsay Quotations

We definitely battled. Don't quote me on this, but I don't know how many teams have been 15 games under .500 and did what we did. This is my eighth season, and -- I've never had this much fulfillment before. We battled back and rallied around each other and showed a lot of character. Every guy gave his heart. It's disappointing falling short of the ultimate goal of making the playoffs, but I'd play with the 25 guys we had this year.

It's a long road ahead of us. We know we have to sweep them to get back into this thing, ... We have four games to get it done. We were in the reverse role last year. We were up three with nine games to play and the Angels overcame that and went to the playoffs. Hopefully we can do the same.

It was just a 24-hour flu thing. I was pretty sick on Sunday.

He's definitely into the game. He's very intense. Both of those guys are. I guess something was said, and Jason kind of snapped.

Young hitters are going to go through their ups and downs. When the offense was hot, those two guys were contributing most of the time.

We still have the opportunity now, if we sweep (the Angels), to come out even for the last weekend.

Tomorrow, as long as I don't do anything crazy today. I feel good today.

We could have folded up the tent after May, but we didn't, ... We've got incredible character in this clubhouse.

We know we're top-of-the-order guys and need to get on base. (Eric Chavez) is swinging a great bat. It helps to be on base when he's up.

Winning covers a lot of things up. But I'd also say that chemistry plays a factor in winning.