Rocco Baldelli Quotations

Obviously he's not a normal guy; he's done some pretty incredible things -- not just in baseball. But he gives off the impression that he's personable and that he's just a regular guy walking around.

People were pretty pumped up. They know what they're talking about. I think they're following what's going on a little bit more. There's a lot more positive attitude where there wasn't one before. It was just more of an obligatory thing that people were going to. This didn't seem like one of those things.

If it happened once, it can happen again. But no one knows when.

It gives the younger guys, who are going to be here a while, some hope for the future that you're going to take the field and be a winning team.

I think everything he said was great. The team is going in the right direction.

Some of the things going on here kind of get you going and excited for the season. Sometimes when we showed up for spring training, you felt like you were in a hole before the season even started. With these guys coming in, there will be some kind of climb in payroll. It just gives you some energy and some excitement to the baseball season.

It felt real good. I was really excited about getting out there playing.

That's unbelievable in itself. I don't see how that could ever happen. It's hard enough trying to play one season and play every game. Only a handful of people do that every year. Rarely do they do it over and over again.

Usually the first day I just track the ball, watch it come out of the pitcher's hand (but not swing). This year I couldn't wait to take swings.

To me, all those records are unattainable. That's why they're records.

I stayed later than the guys who were playing. It was miserable. I didn't even feel like I was part of the team.

Sometimes when you showed up for spring training, you felt like you were in a hole before the season started. We needed this.

I'll be back in the outfield in a couple of weeks. I'm not rushing it.

In the past, we really haven't thought about it. From the first day of spring training, you knew you were going to have a tough time winning a lot of games.

I don't really know how you can get a hit in 56 straight games. That doesn't make any sense to me. But obviously, if it happened once, it can happen again.

He's made a lot of good passes at the ball this spring, a lot of line drives to left. It looks nice.