Jason Varitek Good Quotations

He just kept us in the game, plain and simple. They were taking good swings early, but not as good of swings later. He settled into his game real good. His stuff was electric, there's no question. I'll take one run every time someone takes the ball.

He had good stuff. It was a matter of just honing it in to where he wanted to throw it.

He's done such a good job trying to make the organization better and the team better at the big-league level. It's going to be very tough to see a guy like him go, especially at a time like this.

Manny's a good teammate. Different people have different things going on. He knows how to prepare himself. If he's not prepared and he's not able to do things, then you can question him.

I thought it was a very, very good outing. Maybe I saw something different than he felt. But I thought it was definitely a very good start for Curt. Today for me was definitely a step up. We just didn't get it done offensively.

I think his personality in the clubhouse and his ability to communicate with the pitchers will be good. That's not taking anything away from Josh. Josh brought a ton of communication with the pitchers and he did an excellent job with that, communicating back and forth. I know Dougie really well. He's a very good friend a great teammate.

Keith threw the ball really well, also. He threw some really good changeups. And his location of his fastball was pretty good.

I think that's what makes this lineup good is that different people contribute on different nights. We're going to have our times where our big dogs are going to carry us. But when different people can contribute, that's when we're going to be our best.

What I think and what goes on is not public knowledge. Good or bad, it's handled in here. That's all I can really tell you without telling you too much.

There?s a few I?m going to have to learn, but we still have two weeks left so that?s the good part. It?s important for me these next couple of weeks, just on a personal level. I need to play. I need to get at bats. I need to accelerate my play. I need to see pitchers. There?s a lot to be done.

We have to come out and bounce back and be ready to play tomorrow, period. We're right there, we're right in it, that's a good thing.

I'm very upset we're losing a guy like him. We also lost our assistant GM (Josh Byrnes), who's a very good baseball man. We seem to have a lot of that going around.

They do a lot of little things. We have to execute well to beat them. They have a good bullpen and good starting pitching. They can create things offensively. They'll take the extra base. If we're all aware of our surroundings and what's going on, we can contain it.

It was big. We gave away the first one and got pounded in the second one, so it was good to get out with a win today.

They're known for relaying signs at second (base). They always have been and they're good at it.