Mark Bellhorn Quotes (15 Quotes)

It is kind of weird the way it's worked out. Getting to see the rivalry from both sides is a trip. At both places, you're taught to hate the other side so much.

That's kind of a risky move. I guess they're trying to make a point. Sometimes maybe that does fire a team up to get things going.

In Boston, most of the people believe in (the curse) just because of all of the stuff that has happened. It's kind of the same way in Chicago - they expect something to go wrong because that's what's happened over the years.

Sometimes, that's going to happen. It was ugly. But after you play for awhile, you see a lot of ugly innings.

I never would have thought it. But this is a pretty potent lineup. You can't get down too much.

He hit the ball unbelievably. I think they eventually wanted him to have the job. I think he exceeded the expectations they had of him this spring. You might as well give him a shot, and he earned it.

I'd like to have had more of a chance. I've never in my career been that great a starter, I'd come along in the end. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. I wanted to perform and I probably forced it. You always look back to the year before and you want to put up similar numbers. It got tough for me.

There are a lot of great players here, but he's the guy that always stood out. He was always the guy that wanted the ball hit to him or wanted that at-bat. He was the guy always capable of getting that hit.

I'll do whatever they need me to do. I can play a lot of positions, I can pinch run, pinch hit - whatever they need from me.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. Obviously, I wanted to perform and knew I had the ability to do that and maybe I tried to force it too much. You look at the year before and you know you're capable of putting up those kind of numbers. You're human, so you have thoughts like whether he can't do it anymore that come into your mind but that's the last thing you want to think about. As hard as it is, you have to try to find positives in everything.

Every guy in this locker room knows what happened last year and how it happened. Maybe the fire's on this side now. When you lose, the way the Red Sox did to the Yankees in 2003 or the way the Yankees did last year, you have a little more determination.

I enjoyed my time ... I enjoyed my time with a championship team. It got tough for me near the end -- not that I was ready to leave, but I could see that they were moving me in that direction. I put a lot of pressure on myself.

It was kind of weird to look in the mirror the first time I tried my hat on.

I wish they had given me a little more cushion, ... But at the same time, I've got to go out there and produce. I let outside stuff kind of get in my mind.

We don't seem to be able to manufacture anything right now. We don't have that swagger. Every winning team that I've played on, when games came down to the eighth they've stepped it up. Right now, when we're down in the eighth, I don't know if we have that confidence to come back.