Carlos Lee Quotes (15 Quotes)

I've been very patient at the plate. I'm trying to see a lot of pitches and wait for the right one.

The better teams are, the better we seem to play. We're playing the tough teams now and we're playing good.

That's baseball, you know. It happens. It's a first for me.

I'm happy to be here. I can only do so much, so it will take the whole team to (win the WBC). It's nice for baseball to see fans from different countries having the opportunity to see big league players together on one team.

I've got two strikes on me and I'm just trying to put the ball in play. I've been having some pretty good success so far this season and today it really paid off.

It's a lot more fun when you go out there and you know you've got a team that's capable of scoring eight to 10 runs every game.

It never came out of the light. I lost it all the way. I'm just happy it hit me in the head. I put my glove up there to protect myself.

He doesn't want to make any excuses. If he got lit up, he's going to say that he got lit up, and he's not going to say it was because of this or that. That's the way he is.

They haven't been intimidated. Every time they go to the plate, their confidence is enough that they feel like they belong here. That's great because the only thing that goes against you when you get to the big leagues is fear.

Everybody knows he's going to hit. He's seeing the ball better. He laid off some pitches today and that's what it's going to take.

I feel pretty good, and we've still got a couple of weeks to get ready. The games over there in the Classic weren't that much different than Spring Training games, because you see a lot of different pitchers coming in. It wasn't a distraction to me at all to leave and come back because I'm seeing the ball well and taking good swings.

I didn't get to play in the Olympics so this is the closest I can get. There's a lot of pride playing for your country.

When he first hit it, I thought it was going to just be a fly ball, but it took off. It was (going to be) a homer. It was out. Same with Edmonds. The ball just took off. The ball was carrying out.

He has better stuff than the Yankees' Mariano Rivera. With Rivera, you can put the ball in play. With this guy ... that's one of the few guys that when I'm looking for a slider, I can't hit it. That's the best pitch in the league.

You could say that. I get to play with some of the best players in baseball.