Adam LaRoche Quotes (50 Quotes)

I think it's the mentality of spring training and the mentality of the minor leagues. You know when you put that Braves jersey on, you're coming to the field to win every night.

I don't know exactly what it is. But any time you've got a guy, as dominating as he can be when he's on, getting hit around, you know something is different.

It's not fun. But we can't quit. We still have a lot of ball left. We can't let this eat at us.

It's good to see him happy. He misses everybody he'll always miss being a Brave. It's frustrating to see him there, but to see him enjoying it, to see him liking where he's at, and having (Edgar) Renteria being such a good guy makes it easier.

Unbelievable. I guess I forgot what kind of power he has. He gets some pretty incredible carry when he gets ahold of the ball.

It takes a lot of nerve to throw it, ... And to practice it enough to be able to be able to throw strikes ... there's not too many pitching coaches that are going to work on it with you.

This trip feels like it has lasted a month. That's what happens when you lose, stuff gets drug out.

There's nothing worse than to lose in the first round, ... I'd rather not be in the playoffs at all. There's nothing worse than to have to go home after a loss.

That guy's unbelievable. That's some serious pop. The guy's huge. I felt like a little girl standing next to him at first base. No offense to girls.

It is very frustrating when we had the opportunities to score, and we didn't,

I wouldn't have even known that if you didn't just tell me. It feels like we might have won one game on this entire road trip.

We had a lot of obstacles this year. We've been in and out of trouble all year. We just seemed to battle through it with the new guys.

If we're going to go home after the first round again, I'd rather not make the playoffs, ... It was a miserable feeling last year. If it happened two years in a row, it would be even worse than last year. I've got to have my swing figured out before then.

Howard has been a huge pickup for them. Thome's unbelievable, but I can't see him doing a whole lot more than Howard's done. Howard's the key to that team.

That was filthy. Of all the lefties I've faced this year, that's the best curveball I've seen.

I think as a young guy on another team, there could be a selfish side to it,

Today, it kind of felt like it came together.

You know, it takes something different once in a while to get somebody out.

If you could put us together, I'd love to play with these guys for the next eight years. It'd be a dream. I've thought about that a lot. It'd be cool.

It was miscommunication, ... It was my fault.

We'll find out what we're made of if we bounce back tomorrow. The main thing is just to stay after 'em. We can't let our guard down for a second.

I don't think we'd have survived the season without having a shortstop that can produce. He's proven he can do that for a long time.

It's basically like having two No. 1 starters.

Tough play. I should've ate it. I threw to the inside of the bag, just as I was releasing the ball, he went to the outside.

As soon as he didn't break, it didn't cross my mind until after the fact that the pitcher was on first and even though I had to get up, I might have had a shot at getting him at second. If you get a late break on Rollins, nine times out of 10, he's going to beat you to the bag.

This was a big one because it lets them know that we're not going to lay down and let them win the division.

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

I know. I'm the last man standing.

He froze a few hitters out there. I was impressed.

I kind of wanted to look at him with, 'What are you talking about I did nothing today.' But that's the way he is. He knows you had a rough game. He's never going to tell you about it. He's going to tell you about something good you did.

I'm kind of glad. If we had won, we would have come in here and watched television for two hours to see if the Phillies won. I'm not saying I would have complained. Obviously, that would have been better than this. But it will all work out.

We've played a ton of one-run games. I know we've won some of them, but it just feels like we've lost most of them.

Hats off to him. I think one of the hardest things to do in the game is to keep a hitting streak. I don't think as long as I'm alive we'll ever see anybody get close to 56, but if anybody is going to do it, Jimmy's a great guy.

I'm just trying to get it going for the postseason. I know we're not in there yet, but I'm planning on going there.

Statistically there was no way they could keep doing what they had been doing the first week and a half of the season. It was gonna turn. It was just a matter of time.

It was a tight (strike) zone tonight, so you could look for your pitch, ... Good for hitters, bad for pitchers.

We should have done better than winning one out of three games here. We didn't get some hits when we needed them, and we gave up some hits when we didn't need to.

He's huge. I wonder if they've tested him yet.

Losing that second game the way we did, it almost feels like we've been swept. That's a tough loss.

It's just one of those things. I gambled and lost. It just didn't work out. The guys battled real hard, we just couldn't get a couple of balls to fall in the ninth inning.

It was decent offensively. We could have scored some more. We got some hits, but we didn't put them together like I thought we should have.

(Francoeur is) unbelievable. I forgot the kind of pop he has. When he first hit it, I thought it was going to be caught. It was 20 feet over the fence.

I had stomach flu and just came out in kind of a down game for me to begin with, ... Then hitting the grand slam, putting some runs on the board, it was a pretty good feeling. ... I thought a 6-1 lead was going to be enough for us.

We'll probably get away with it, ... but that's not the kind of ball you want to be playing.

It's huge that the middle of the lineup stays hot so that they have to throw strikes to Andruw. We've all got to hit. We've got to get going.

They trust that he's the boss he's going to put you in there when he thinks he needs to. There's no complaining. The chemistry's been phenomenal.

He can do it all. He doesn't just hit home runs. He drives in a lot of runs and he saves a lot of runs in the outfield. He's got to be one of the top-five all-around players in the league.

I don't think they'll all be like this. If they are, I'll have a head full of grey hair by the end of the year.

The hits are nice, but the important thing for me is I was hitting the ball hard, ... I had a rough night and I had to correct things.

My dad is always going to look at it in a positive way, ... He's not going to call it a slump. He just says, 'You're in a stretch of bad luck.'