Rich Aurilia Quotations

We're going to go as far as our pitching takes us. Our offense is going to match up against anybody ...

I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.

I don't think anyone would have picked these four teams. Maybe St. Louis, because Arizona had some injury problems. But it's like an NCAA pool out there. You never know what's going to happen.

He thanked me for what I'd done, ... He said they'd know more after their meeting next week.

He could have Babe Ruth hitting behind him, ... and they'd still walk him.

Look it up. I don't think I've ever hit cleanup.

When it really comes down to it, I really don't care where I play as long as I play. You could throw me in the outfield, I don't care; anywhere but behind the plate, for now.

We have to try some different things out there on the mound.

To not lay down and die after the inning they had was big for us and shows that nobody in here has given up.

We got some walks and some hits with runners in scoring position, ... Those are the little things you have to do. You're not always going to get the three-run homer.

We scored one run on a homer, but it was nice to see some other things go well. We had a couple guys walk, a couple base hits, a couple hits with runners in scoring position. Those are the little things you have to do to win. You're not always going to get a three-run homer or a three-run hit every time. You have to do the small things, and that's what we did today.

At that point, we had left 10 guys on base. We had had a couple opportunities, but we didn't capitalize on them. Getting off the hook like that was good.

I see no positive effect that can come out of this. I can see the good intentions, maybe, of what they think they're doing, but what are you going to change that's happened in the past? Absolutely nothing. The (steroid testing) plan we have in effect now is supposed to change the future, which is the only thing you can really control.

I've played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride -- to say, 'I have to play shortstop' or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at shortstop. Can I still play there? Yeah. But we have a good shortstop here.

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

That's good for out mentality the rest of the way. It shows nobody in here's given up.

You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two strikes. I wasn't looking for an offspeed pitch, but I knew he had it. He ended up throwing me another fastball that I stayed on and hit it where I was supposed to hit it instead of trying to pull it.

A couple of guys got walks and a couple of guys got hits. You can't hope for a three-run homer ever time.

It's kind of depressing when you lose like that. Teams like that, they win games like that. Seems like they always come out on top.

It's hard to win a game when you're giving up 16, 17 hits a game, ... and your team doesn't get the 17 hits a game.

Even when they don't have all their starters in there, they're not on all cylinders, they're still a great ballclub and they know how to win. To come out and play a pretty solid game like we did tonight is good for our mentality the rest of the way.

After the last year of playing a couple of new positions, I have confidence that I can do that and get the job done there. I think they have the confidence in me that if they needed to put me somewhere, that I would do the job.

In a weird way, it's good and bad being an insurance policy. Do I like to do it? No, because I know I can play every day. At the same time, if I'm going to play every day somewhere on the field a majority of the time, that's fine.

But I'm also at a point in my career where I feel I can play a bunch of different places, and I could play every day: a couple days here, a couple days there.

He's kind of sneaky. He throws across his body and he short-arms his pitches. You've got to feel him out. It took us a few times to get something going off of him.

He's kind of sneaky. He throws across his body a little bit. The first time you face him, you've got to feel him out a little bit.

He?s a mentally strong guy. I think his goal right now is just to be healthy and not talk about this stuff. That?s his prerogative. There?s not much for him to talk about. Everybody is doing the talking for him.

I can come in one day and say 'Hey, I'm playing third,' and the next day, 'Hey, I'm playing second,' and have the confidence that I can do it now without worrying about what I'm going to do out there.