Dave Roberts Quotations

On the field, I don't think anyone's looking for people to be best friends off the field. When it comes to winning baseball games, you have to have 25 people willing to sacrifice and do whatever it takes.

When I got to first, I felt the ball in my chest. There must have been some kind of contact with Cruz's glove, then I saw the ball rolling away.

No one in this clubhouse is dwelling on our record,

Obviously (the home run) was the last thing on my mind. I went from goat to hero.

Now, we can have some swagger in these late-inning games because we have done it before. We have a reference point.

Richard will be riding for Mr Pipe, that is correct.

Obviously, I realize how important it is. I want to be out there. But it's still there. Hopefully, it will be better tomorrow. I'd love to have us win and buy me a couple of extra days.

Obviously, it makes it a lot more interesting. You've got the best player, possibly, who's ever played this game back to a team that's been playing well.

If they can bring in the revenue to help pay for the stadium, it's fine with me.

When those guys have the lead, they smell blood. No one expected anything from us.

Me being the son of a Marine for 30 years, it's an even more special day for myself. My dad will be here tonight. Unfortunately, it took Sept. 11 for a good part of Americans to appreciate what the military does for us. ... Tonight's a special evening.

We had Brad on the ropes, but he battled out there and competed. When you have a chance to put him away, you have to before he gets comfortable and settled in. He pretty much dominated once he got settled in.

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

There are so many other ways that they could go with their lives. If I can be a role model in any way, I welcome that.

He knows the game inside out. If you talk to guys in their clubhouse, they all respect him as a man and as a manager.

I cut school in '84 to see the Cubs and Padres. This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

For you to instill that in your players now puts them in a better position to succeed later. It's easy to bunt if you've practiced it, but you can't ask him to bunt in the (playoffs) if he's never done it.

For us to be concerned about it and to dwell on our record over the season is counterproductive,

But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we need to win one game.

He wants to make the tax cuts permanent that reduces income to the government while we're in war which increases expenses.. I don't know how you can have your cake and eat it to.

He was a little more aggressive than I thought he would be. I hope he comes out of it unscathed.

He was all-square stood on the 18th, then finished with a par to win his game and halve the match overall.

He's kind of like the pivotal guy on this team. He's been the rock or the glue or whatever. He's the one guy you don't want to lose.

I feel great. It was good for my alignment. It's hard to describe, but I feel good.

He'll hopefully be in the race but there's nothing concrete to speak of at the moment.

My whole thing is getting on base. My on-base percentage is the No. 1 thing. That equates to runs, ... I'm just trying to be productive as far as being a leadoff hitter and being on base.

I watched (on TV) when they played the Aztecs, ... They looked good.

I was busting my tail down the line because I knew it was going to be a bang-bang play at first,

I respect him as a man and as a manager.

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Reggie Bush and the RBV All-Stars. Those guys definitely are at the top of my list for 2005.

Maybe if we could have put them away, he wouldn't have come back. We made a mess of this, and we took two big punches on Monday and Tuesday. But we're still standing.

I think last year in the World Series, they did some things that were out of character for them, as far as executing. They didn't seem like the same team as this year. They're very relaxed. You just can't really see any weaknesses in that team.

It could've been devastating for us to lose (yesterday's game),

I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know, the ball was in my chest and my arms. I just wanted to make a good bunt and put some pressure on them. It was bang-bang, and fortunately it got by him.

Last year I think the situation we were in was a lot tougher task than the situation we're in right now, because we were down to three outs, and had to win four straight games,

Our bullpen obviously is the strongest part of our team. I like our chances, I really do. If we can get to the bullpen ...

I think most teams would have succumbed to the pressures and folded. We have a bunch of guys who are fighters.

Today was a do-or-die for them, and he pitched a great game. It's obvious that he is a big-game pitcher. So when you spot him some runs early and he has that cushion, then it makes him that much better.

You don't always want to wait until the ninth inning to win games, but we haven't had that. That propels us, to know we can win at any time. You don't want to go into the postseason scuffling.

We have had several reports of children being shot by them.

We're used to this. After all, it's just mud and water, easily cleaned.

We're used to this. The people that it really affects the most are the poorer folks that maybe are renting and might not have the means and transportation to get their possessions moved to higher ground in time. They lose everything.

We could easily have quit. This is a time when we could have easily conceded.

We haven't had a lead in two games.

We needed to play hard all game, not just the last ten minutes. We need to work harder and end this series as soon as possible.

When I'm seeing a pilot, I'm taking care of the pilot -- but I'm doing it for the FAA, ... I'm an agent of the FAA, and that's who I report to, so it's far more important that I meet their needs than the patient's needs.

We've talked about having a swagger. But when you play .350 baseball, or whatever we played, you can't tell yourself to have that swagger. You have to go out there and produce to have it. When you show you can come back and get big hits, then it shows that it's possible. I think it definitely snowballs.

When you win a game in dramatic fashion, it kind of re-energizes you,

(Webb) is a very good pitcher, when his sinker is on, its tough to get consecutive hits against him, but tonight we put some good at bats against him.

We've got a veteran ballclub, and guys who are still very hungry. There's a lot of guys on this team who haven't won. This is an opportunity for us, and we don't want to let it go. There's been no panic, and guys are still banding together.

We're looking for more consistency out of our team. I think that a lot of guys are still coming in with a little chip on their shoulder because you hear that it was a fluke, it was a terrible division. We're out to prove that we can do it again.

Yeah, I think it could have been worse, without a doubt. After the MRIs, hopefully we're going to get good news. It's going to be hard to keep both of us out of the lineup. This time of year, it's hard to keep us out.

We believe, ... we're the best team in baseball.

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Early Friday the outer reaches of the system will begin to affect Texas, with the eye making landfall sometime Saturday morning. Something this large is going to pretty much cover the whole coastal region of Texas.

It would have been devastating, really. For us to find a way to come up with a team victory ... it's the biggest win of our year, no doubt about it.

I've never seen this in baseball, let alone in the NL West.

What a season. I've never been through a season like this.

We think nothing of having her in the dugout.

With everything he has been through this year, for Sean to rise to the occasion like that, it says a lot about his character.

We've got a good mind-set. We're relaxed. Coming into this series we were the underdogs. We've got nothing to lose, and I think that we'll go out and play like it.

I wanted to bring energy out of the gate. After a game like yesterday, you don't want it to snowball. I think that was big for Jake.

I wanted to find something that was different and a lot of times overlooked, and that's high school kids. The funding often is not there,

Something needs to spark us, and I think that we'll do something tomorrow night. Whether it be a great play or a big hit, a two-out hit, something like that. We haven't had any of the above. We need to get something like that to kind of get the momentum.

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

You're talking about a catastrophic disaster, with extensive damage. Look at the impacts of Katrina: You're going to get that all over again.

Even if it's below .500, and we get to the postseason, if we go out there and do something special, then I think people will forget about it, ... We've got nothing to lose. Whatever our record is, nobody expects much of us. As long as 25 guys in the clubhouse do, that's all that matters.

trying to get guys to understand that you have to work the count, you have to swing at strikes, do all those kinds of things good teams do on the offensive end. But they just haven't been able to do it.

This April is going just like last April. But we can't count on a 22-6 May again. We all need to start picking up the slack.

You start looking at these kids, and they're some pretty good players. We didn't do everything right, but we did some things right.

This is really sad. You come all this way to assemble a team and Mike's such a huge part of that. To lose him for any amount of time is disheartening.

In an open-source environment, that would not have happened.

I need to be able to endure a game,

I like the way (Bochy) made Ben bunt,

I guarantee we're going to be better than last year. Last year was a fluke. Everybody in the lineup had a bad year. What are the odds that's going to happen two years in a row? It won't happen.

I love what they're doing, ... They're definitely on the right track.

If you look at the last few World Series champions, ... The Angels, and how well that team played together, and the Marlins, a bunch of young guys at that time that just enjoyed being together. That goes a long way.

I just can't recall any mistakes that they made, ... In every situation that they had an opportunity to execute, they executed. Every big play that they had to make, they made. Timely hitting. Getting the leadoff guy on. You can look up and down. They played the way they're supposed to play.

I just can't recall any mistakes that they made. In every situation that they had an opportunity to execute, they executed. Every big play that they had to make, they made. Timely hitting. Getting the leadoff guy on. You can look up and down. They played the way they're supposed to play.

I'm going to try to get to the game tonight,

The Avery School will remain a vibrant part of not only the East Dedham community, but of the town of Dedham.

The ball was in between, and we both tried to cut it off. I felt my knee hit him pretty good. I was hoping it wasn't too serious. I didn't see a replay. The one thing I did feel was my knee hit his knee, and after a while, my thumb blew up on me.

Anytime you lose your ace it hurts. You take him out there and you expect to win. Hensley gave us a great effort, but there's no substitute for your star pitcher. The main thing is we have to get him healthy.

On behalf of myself, the chair, the vice chair, and the superintendent I would like to apologize to each and every one of you for the anxiety that may have been caused from the presentation given at our last School Committee meeting at the Riverdale School.

It's definitely not overrated. When you spend so much time together you have to have guys get along. You're going to have some tough times, and when guys can genuinely get along, then it makes it a lot easier to overcome some of the adversity.

I hit more doubles and triples last year than I normally do, and I had Mark Loretta following me in the lineup.

Cam put on a nice show. We're looking forward to getting this lineup rolling.

He's such a dynamic player. He makes everybody better. He's like our Magic Johnson.

I don't know if we can do that again. But I don't think it can get any worse than some of last month.

He's a hell of a back. We just tried to get him to fight through this because it always comes around. I think he felt he didn't have a chance and wasn't going to play no matter what he did.

A real difference is, there were no expectations before, and now there are. People aren't just satisfied with their team winning a division championship. They expect the Padres and Chargers to do more. Personally, I think that's a good thing.

The funny thing is that new guys who come into the organization who question whether she's adequate enough as far as strength, she rectifies that in a hurry. There's many guys that aren't repeat customers because of that.

You've got the best player, possibly, who's ever played this game back to a team that's been playing well. It's one of those things where you try not to get too down on yourself as an organization because we could have put them away.

The entire committee realizes that to close any school is not an option.

You come in here and everyone's expecting us to lose three straight,

It's made a big difference in the way I feel. Injuries sometimes can't be prevented, but I feel my body is working the way it's supposed to work.

It's one of those things where you try not to get too down on yourself as an organization because we could have put them away. Who knows, if we had done that, he might not have come back. But we're in a situation right now where we kind of made our bed and now we've got to do something about it.

It's not necessarily that the open source software never has security incidents. It's that there are far more people to deal with incidents. In the proprietary world, you're hoping really that the code never gets out into hackers' hands. It's really security by obscurity.

It's a little different circumstances, but you know what? When you pop the champagne, you pop the champagne. And this is just the beginning.