Charlie Manuel Quotes (285 Quotes)

Balance in a big-league lineup means a whole lot. I might change my mind in a couple of days.

I'm not really worried about it a whole lot. We have a pretty good team on the field. A lot of teams have the same problems with pitching. If we can correct one or two, I see us competing. We're at the same point we where this time last year.

He's getting the opportunity and taking advantage of it. He showed he can hit. He's not a pretty hitter, but he has good hand-and-eye coordination. He puts the good part of the bat on the ball. He knows how to play.

I don't know if people believe that. If they do, they shouldn't because that's damn sure not true. I understand everything about baseball.

I want them to be who they are. The fans in Philadelphia are starving for a winner. They pay their money to get into the game, why shouldn't they demand us to play right There's nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, he had some trouble in that first inning and gave up four runs. He just had a little trouble getting the ball down. But he's fine. He had his breaking ball working real good.

I think he was safe. But if you're going to go there, you have to make it.

If we get consistent pitching, we have a chance to win.

With the bases loaded, I want him to get a good ball to hit and drive the ball, ... At the same time, you have to be disciplined enough to know your strike zone. I think everybody gets away from it when their adrenaline's going and they get anxious to hit.

Lieber looks good. It looks like he's taken care of himself. I want all our pitchers to be in shape when we leave here. We have a tough schedule out of the gate. Everything will be better if we get a good jump out of the gate.

This is a hard loss. We had it and we gave it away. We have to get our act together and start winning games.

That didn't hurt him today. I'll look at him more. If we see him two or three times, we'll get a better idea of what he can do.

Right now, the plan is for David Bell to be on the team. His back is doing real well now. We'll just have to wait and see.

Without a doubt, that put a big hurt on us.

It'll sink in when I get back home to Winter Haven and sit on my back porch. For four or five days I won't answer the phone.

He's going to be fine. I'm sure the talk always comes into play, but if he can handle it he can handle anything they throw up there if he just keeps playing baseball the way that he's been playing.

This one is tough. This is one we had and we gave it away, and it was against the team that's ahead of us.

He's been doing fine. He's the first one here every morning.

We didn't hit in situations and we had some sloppy fundamentals. I said earlier this spring I want this team to be the best fundamental team in the league, but today we didn't show that.

He looked impressive. There was a pretty strong wind, too.

Ryan has a rubber arm, and I can put him out there for extended innings. I think Ryan's attitude has been great. We've talked a lot about it, and he's doing well. I'm very pleased with his attitude. He's a competitor and he wants to play and start -- I understand that. I wouldn't want him to feel differently than that.

I was thinking about getting thrown out of the game, if you want to know the truth.

Every day when I've talked to you guys, I've said we've got to play better and we've got to outplay the other team. And I feel like, yeah, we've played teams we can beat. Some of them we didn't beat. We've got to improve. And if we don't, it's going to be too late.

Right now, he should feel good about himself because he's throwing real good. His last three times out, he's looked very good.

One good thing about the 38-game hitting streak is he learned what his swing is supposed to be. It's common to lose your feel now and then. It'll come back. But a day of rest won't hurt him.

We should definitely have a big crowd. I know people in Philadelphia are good baseball fans.

I thought he beat the ball. He didn't mean to get thrown out of the game, but he was upset because he got called out and we would have had another run and he would have had a hit. That's good.

This is new territory for Utley. This is a lot of baseball for a young guy.

How the hell am I going to stop him ... Bell sees the play. He's on his own. He was being aggressive, but he made a bad judgment.

Our team starts with Billy. When you're building a pitching staff, you start with a closer and work forward. He's definitely one of the top two or three closers in baseball. I'm definitely going to keep up with his negotiating and everything. I'll do whatever I can to help sign him.

We'll wait and see. I want what's best for him. At the same time, I want him to be ready when the season starts. We have to get him healthy to where he pitch in a regular rotation for awhile.

I was throwing the ball well. But he explained it was more not how many pitches I'd thrown but the time of the game.

His first time up in the big leagues, he was anxious and he tried too hard to prove he belonged. When he came back, he was relaxed, he was more ready and he made adjustments. As the season went on, he got better. He works hard and he likes to be a player for us when it counts. Plus, he's big.

If we win tonight, that's big, ... Tonight's big and tomorrow's big. That will keep fan interest up. They want to see if we can win or are we going to disappoint them. It's up to us to show them. You've got to win to get the fans.

They played the best baseball in our division. If we played the best baseball, we would win. Evidently, we didn't play the best baseball.

He started having trouble with his command. He started to get the ball up. It looked like he started to overthrow the ball.

He has talent. He can do some things. He has a lot of tools and is more patient at the plate. In Spring Training, his swing was out of control.

It took us forever to get out of last place. But in our division, you can be in last place in a hurry. We have the outcome in our hands.

We didn't come out in the best mode. He was getting ahead of some hitters, then he was bouncing some balls. We weren't very patient and I thought we were giving him a lot of credit. I can see maybe why, because he's pitched good against us. But at the same time, I'd like to think we can beat anybody that goes out there.

He looked like he lost some weight. He said he still felt a little weak.

He just made a bad judgment.

That's kind of understandable if he is (upset), ... but that was what I wanted to do. I didn't want to give up more runs.

Once this road trip is over, if we stay where we're at until September, we can control our own destiny.

We have got to win all of them, but we have to take them one at a time in order to do that. We have to make up two games somehow.

At the start of the season, I thought it might be 92, but now looking at it, someone could win with 88 games. It might take less.

I told him to hit one out, ... I told him to relax, make sure you stay on the ball and track it. He went up there with that idea.

We're up against it now. It's getting near that time.

It's hard because how you start is how you start. We could have won, but ended up losing. 0-2 is 0-2, and we have to come back Thursday. We're going to win some games and we're going to be there. At the same time, it's always great to get off to a good start.

We're in a little funk. It seems we can't get going, but we have a much better club than that. We're going to win some games and we're going to compete.

I think Ryan Howard has been a big part of our success the whole season. I think his numbers speak for itself. He's gotten some big hits for us, and he's an exciting player to watch.