Cliff Floyd Quotes (75 Quotes)

We needed a win, definitely, ... You can have good games, and everybody says we battled. No. We need wins, ugly wins, crazy, I don't care how you get it.

Nothing special - the same old Lieber. He doesn't make mistakes.

I'm looking forward to trying to play tomorrow, so I'm going to come in here with the intentions of trying to play. If it doesn't allow me to play, if it doesn't allow me to swing, then I won't go out there.

I wouldn't know ... because my grandmother could get me out right now. The big boys who've been carrying us might be better people to ask.

There'll be pressure, but we have a team that won't allow that to happen. We have guys who are coming here to win and not coming here to put up numbers and get another contract. We're about winning. We understand that. We want to do whatever it takes.

Every once in awhile, the Man upstairs sends someone down here who is just really, really good. I'm serious. Some people have special gifts in other things he has a gift to play this game. He has it, he understands it, he smiles, he enjoys it. When he goes, we go.

It was kind of funny because we all thought the ball was going over the fence. We're like, 'Ain't no way it's happening again.' I'm glad he came back on the road, so he could do something good, then come home and have the fans appreciate him for it.

He's not a guy who makes a lot of mistakes. He can get away with a fastball down the middle because you're looking for a pitch on the corner.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't hard to stay positive. It's to the point where you kind of laugh because you're so damned mad.

The home run doesn't mean jack. You still have to come back and play and make the plays when they have men in scoring position.

I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you play until the end, and then at the end of that you sign another one. If they choose to call you and say, 'You know what We'll give you an extension,' you deal with that accordingly. Honestly, I've done good things, but you still have to establish yourself where you have a right to talk - 'You know what I deserve this right now.' I haven't done that. I just want to play.

I'm lost, and I would assume a lot of people in here are at the same level as I am,

I hate facing (Burnett), man, he's tough. But he makes a lot of mental mistakes that cost him games.

I feel like we're in the right position. We're moving forward. Our young guys are healthy. We really don't have anything to worry about, just going out there and just playing and staying healthy. If we do that, why shouldn't we win 95-or-something games The key is health.

That's wrong, that's so wrong. He always had that positive vibe going. Always had a smile. That's just horrible. We're in the clubhouse today and we see that 'critical condition, critical condition' on the bottom of the screen. 'Is it ever going to go back to stable' Now he's gone. ... It's a shame, man. It's awful.

They've got a lot of decisions to make, ... I think it depends on the direction they want to head in. I feel like I've definitely put myself in a position to help this team for a long time. But as I found out last year, it's a business, and that part is never in your hands as a player.

We all know what we have to do as a team. No one individual is going to take us to the promised land. If we stay healthy, the sky's the limit.

Those guys seemed real relaxed. I think we, on the other hand, weren't that relaxed. And it showed.

I think he wins because of what he's done with a team that didn't have Chipper Jones for a long time,

Billy ain't going to be the savior here. He's going to do a great job for us. He's going to give up some like any other closer in the game. We're going to live with that just like we're going to live with all those games he saves. It ain't ruining my confidence out there.

He'll do little things to annoy me. I'll tell him I don't like his shirt, so he'll wear it 21 times.

It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

When she told me that 75 percent of your body functions can fail, that scared the -- out of me. You could be sitting at home thinking you're fine and you could be getting sicker by the minute. Unfortunately, the one thing about kidneys is you don't know until a week before dialysis that you need dialysis.

It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I'm not really looking forward to missing any games, especially with Carlos out. ... I was a little bit more scared than anything because I did it last year, too.

Everyone needs to know I'm OK. I'm still going out there and playing. No one needs to worry now. The tests were in response to small things.