Chris Shelton Quotes (34 Quotes)

I think once you understand the length of the season and what happens, the biggest thing is you have to learn to pace yourself,

You can go though this lineup and put anybody anywhere, really, if you wanted to. I'm not going to lie, I feel really comfortable hitting third. But I'll continue to go wherever he puts me. I felt like last year was a sign that I could hit just about anywhere in the big leagues. I hit second, third, hit fifth, it doesn't really matter to me. As long as I'm in there, I don't care. There's going to be plenty to go around in this lineup.

July was a special month -- those don't come along all the time. You can't expect 40 hits a month the whole season, as much as you'd like to see it happen.

My goal is never to go pole-to-pole. My goal is to stay in the middle of the field.

People, almost daily, complain about our lack of computers with Internet.

You just have to look at me. There's no way. If you come to the ballpark and you look at me in person, you could tell I'm not on steroids. I don't have the body to be on steroids, that's for sure.

If he says we played bad, we played bad. He's the boss.

Hearing all the time I couldn't do this and couldn't do that put a chip on my shoulder.

I wasn't surprised. I was more disappointed that they only protected 37 guys on their roster. All of my success is predicated on everybody telling me I can't do this or that. It's given me a chip on my shoulder to prove people wrong.

They're all actually starting to grow on me, if you really want the truth.

If you can hit .300, it's something. It doesn't matter if it's your first season or your 15th, .300 is a good year. If I can get that done, that would be great.

He did a good job. Going into that game blind was tough. He went out there and he executed.

It will be good to start playing at home. We have an opportunity to get off to a very good start this season. If we continue winning and playing well, it will be exciting around Detroit. Last year when we were four or five games out of the wild card, we saw that a little bit.

The biggest part is to come out here and try to improve myself in every aspect of the game and try to get myself ready for the season. Obviously I want to come in here and make the team and we'll just go from there.

I was expecting it to skip off the grass faster. If I catch it, the inning is over.

We'll put Rodney out there any day. He goes out there and he's got good stuff. And Tuesday night's loss, it's going to happen. It happens to the best of them. We saw it happen to Schilling the night before. We just have to go out there and pick him up.

I'm just happy for the opportunity to play ball every day. I would rather just get in, do my job and get out without dealing with all of the questions. But I guess it comes with the territory. If we weren't winning, nobody would want to talk to me then. And that's the most important thing.

Trust me, I've been paying attention to all of the people that I've been compared to. I don't deserve to even be mentioned with players like that.

Everyone thinks the clubhouse had problems last year. We didn't have problems. It was just frustration because we weren't playing well. That's when trouble starts.

The thing is, good pitching always beats good hitting. Unfortunately, Dmitri (Young) stole third and we had one out, all I had to do was hit the ball to the outfield. I couldn't get it done. We just didn't get the big hits when we needed to.

A lot of it comes from Opening Day at home. Hopefully I play well enough that I get more attention even though I don't like it, that means I'm playing well.

I'm not going to lie. I've paid attention to that a little bit. When you turn on the TV, that's all you see. It feels unreal to put me with all those names.

I remember watching him when I was growing up. Just to watch him go about his business was huge.

It feels good and it's fun. The biggest thing is we got to go out there and make sure that we get wins. If I'm going out there looking for personal numbers, that's the wrong thing. We need wins, and today what happened got us a win.

Today, it was frustrating, and I really (couldn't) care less about what I did today.

I can control going out and playing hard everyday and trying to improve myself, and Carlos is the same way. I can't control what Carlos does. If we're in a ballgame and he's there, I want to try to help him anyway possible and try to help the team win and I know it's the same way with him.

They just felt like I wasn't in their plans at that time. Detroit has given me an opportunity, and I'm taking full advantage of it.

It's strange for me, power-wise. It's not something I'm accustomed to. I'm not going up trying to hit home runs. I'm just trying to get good pitches to hit and they're going out of the park. It's surprising.

That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away.

I've never been the guy who had all the talent and could take a day off here and there. I've had to work and prepare myself every single day. All this attention is new to me. I'm gonna have to get used to it, if I keep this up.

To learn and listen to him was something I'll never forget.

I've never tried to hit a home run. Every time I hit one, I just say to myself, 'There's no way that just happened again.' It's mind-blowing.

Yeah, it might work just one time, but if or when it does, it will be worth it.

I really used that season as a learning experience. I tried to stay as sharp as I could physically by taking extra batting practice. It was a really big year mentally, though. I was able to watch major-leaguers play up close and ask a lot of questions. It really prepared me to eventually play at the big-league level.