Clint Barmes Quotations

So it didn't really surprise me a lot, ... that he's thrown that hard off the mound.

I found a hole. That doesn't happen very often.

I went from as high as I could possibly be to as low as you could possibly be overnight.

We're not rookies anymore, and we've got a year under our belts. Every little bit counts as far as experience goes, and hopefully, every year we get a little bit better. This year, we're expecting to play better and for better things to happen.

I've never walked. If I'm laying off balls, I might get some walks. But I don't go up looking for a walk. Never have. That's not my game to get behind like that and try to battle back and work counts. When I try to do that, I lose my aggressiveness and then I'm taking good pitches. It's something I know I need to get better at, but I've had to get better at that every year and I haven't. Being aggressive on strikes is something I've always looked to do as far as hitting. I feel like I've done well with that approach.

The way Eli started the inning off, I'm telling you right now, that's what started us all off.

That's going be tough, man, I don't know. I don't know if I could ever top that. That's something that's going be, it's very special to me as an exciting moment. I don't know if I'll ever top that one. To be in that situation again would be pretty great. The odds of doing that again this year would be pretty tough.

There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion. There's nothing to it. Hoffman got the best of me.

There's not a better situation to be in. I'd want to be the guy in it every night if I could.

It's devastating. He's the captain, the team leader. I don't know the situation, but I hope he gets back as soon as possible. The only compensation is we've got guys that can take his place. Eli (Marrero) and Jason (Smith) can play the position.

I don't know, I see all the other guys going up against him, and it's not like he's doing anything to them that he isn't doing to me. He's just making me look the same.

It was nice to finish with the team and finish in the same year I got hurt. That way I didn't have to wait until now to get back. It's behind me. I've moved on and I'm excited about this year. I'm fully healthy and I'm ready to go.

It's always good to go home. But these guys will probably be able to push me a little bit more than Dad.

It's something I've done my whole life, just trying to put the ball in play. Most of the time it comes out is when I have two strikes. I get in a big hurry and swing at bad pitches.

That's the first thing that comes to mind -- it's something I'll never forget.

If I could do it all over again and I was going to get hurt, obviously, I'd rather do it on the field where everybody could see it and I wouldn't have to deal with everything and all the different stories that came out. It's a freak accident. It happened. I deal with it everyday. It comes up all the time, and I know it probably will for the rest of my career.