(38 quotes found)
“If you saw my face, I looked at the fielder and then turned straight to the bowler and said 'I'm 100% sure that didn't carry'. Otherwise I would have been off straight away.”
Ricky Ponting
“[Johnny Damon , the Red Sox' center fielder who is in the final year of his contract, said he and his agent are waiting to hear from the team to begin talks on a contract extension.] I'd like to finish up my career here and get locked up for a long time, ... I know it's always been Red Sox policy to wait until after the season, but that can get hairy. I don't want to be looking over my shoulder at the All-Star break and thinking, 'OK, what's going on here.' ”
Johnny Damon
“The fielders who took the catches, the bowlers who put pressure from the other end and the batsmen who scored the runs without which it was not possible to have come this far.”
Anil Kumble
“These guys have always hit the ball, all the way up through the different levels, and they've been decent fielders, too. So it's going to boil down to how well we pitch. This is probably the least amount of experience I've had back for pitchers in 15 years or so.”
Bob Thomas
“To have an entire new infield and a new center fielder is a huge change for a team. It's going to take probably to the beginning of April to see where we are.”
Bronson Arroyo
“They out hit us. Errors caught up to us. Our entire outfield has little experience. Our left fielder (Jackson) is a 10th-grader. Our left-center fielder (Tori Paxton) is a 10th-grader. Our right fielder (Jones) is a track star. Our right-center fielder (Sara Waldrop) has had a little experience. We've only got three players with any experience. But I think we're going to be OK.”
Charlie Williams
“Corey doesn't get the recognition. Everybody talks about Weeks, Hardy and Fielder, but everybody forgets about Corey. He quietly puts up big numbers.”
Doug Melvin
“With Nikki pitching, or Taylor pitching, there aren't many balls hit to our fielders, and when there is one, our defense came up real big and made the plays. Even if there was a hit, we're not getting rattled. The six seniors kind of hold us together.”
Steve Ryan
“I was calling him off because normally the center fielder has the priority there. I don't think he heard me, but that's not his fault.”
Drew Stubbs
“Before that pitch I looked at their left fielder and he was playing Givens deep because he had had a hard shot down the line earlier. I looked at the shortstop, because my concern was not the left fielder. I knew darn well he couldn't get to it. My question was, could the shortstop get to it? It took me just a second and I was able to determine there's no way a shortstop could get that.”
Ed Yates
