Felipe Alou Quotes (176 Quotes)

It's tough, ... Now Pedro is down in the .250s. I think (Wednesday) I saw Pedro tired for the first time since I've managed him. ... And Alfonzo hasn't been hitting the ball hard.

It worked out pretty good the first time.

With time, we look to him to be a No. 1-type guy. If he's healthy, there's no question he's in the rotation. He won't be overwhelmed by an opening day start at home. That's why it was important for him to get his feet wet last year.

Even without Barry playing, we thought we were going to have a really good season. The effort was there. I don't have a guy to accuse of not hustling or not working hard all year.

We're going to take our time with him. It's really hard to lose Noah, a young guy who was really coming up big. He just signed a long-term contract. He was really charged up and throwing the ball well.

I'm not waiting on his swing. I take that for granted. The thing is running the bases. He ran better than in spring training and in the last month of last year. At this time last year, he was limping and complaining about the knee. It's much, much better than a year ago, or in spring training.

I do not want to think about it. I will answer that tomorrow. It has been a very intense game.

Finley will never be an old guy, not with that body.

I never saw him loafing to first. He used to run hard every ground ball, every fly ball, ... It was amazing the way he played the game. Because sometimes you just don't feel like running hard when you think it's going to be an out. If you see him before the game, you didn't believe he was so tough a player. He used to play hurt every day. Used to complain he didn't sleep. But when the game started, he was just marvelous.

He gave him a 96 mph fastball. In his last at-bat, it was a 41-year-old playing a day game after a night game. That was an awesome pitch. It was not easy. But Barry knows how to swing like that on a fastball.

That's a great play. I never made a play like that myself in all the years I played.

Otherwise he'll miss too many games.

His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. With him, he's either good or bad, and today he was able to address his problem. Before, if he got a bad hitter or two, things got out of hand.

Barry, besides what he does with the bat, he's a tremendous base-runner. He doesn't have speed, but his sense of reaching a base or taking the extra base is still there. He's a good judge.

I hope he's activated during the weekend -- that everything is OK enough that he's activated. Friday, I don't see it as a sure thing, because we've got to see how he comes in tomorrow.

He didn't have one great pitch, but he got hitters out with intelligence and command.

He had a great batting practice today. He hit a bunch of balls into the water.

He's contributing big-time to our winning, being on base, prolonging the inning, giving a shot to the guy batting behind him. It happens every year.

(Bench coach) Ron Wotus gives me all the pitches each guy has thrown over the last five days, ... We have a form attached to the lineup card. ... There have been some times a guy gets up even two or three times and doesn't get in the game. We don't forget about that.

I don't have doubts that he'll hit or that they'll walk him. The swing has always been there.

Like I said, it's all about perspective. So now can you at least try to understand what caused Felipe Alou's visceral passion when he heard those hurtful words spill out of the radio I grew up in a time when people weren't afraid to fight or even risk dying to change things, ... But things are different today. People are so busy, and so compromised now that they are sometimes afraid to say or do anything when something wrong happens.

There were many times last year that I had to wait until the eighth inning to get him that fourth at-bat and get him out of the game.

We have no scheduled day off for him tomorrow.

The talent there with Montreal was prospects. When we brought a prospect to camp, he very much had a job, ... Over here, prospects have to break through a lot to make it.

That's always been the thing about him. He'd go along fine, and then he'd get into trouble and give up three or four runs and not get out of it.

At a time when they can't afford to lose, as San Diego's magic number to clinch the National League West creeps toward zero, the Giants looked like a old team that has had one day off in the last 23. I won't say tired bats, ... but tired people.

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock.

Here, it is not a developing situation. Not yet. If a guy gives up five or six runs in two innings, I'm taking him out. I don't care who the guy is.

It's been happening, I've seen it for four years. It may be louder. It's not a whole lot more than the last four years.

That's from a time when I couldn't have played in the major leagues.

We have to respect the fact he's playing all those innings and getting all those at-bats. We believe he's going to hit one every time up.

Whatever the comment was, it was from people who are not spending time in the trenches,

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

I don't worry. But I know it's there. I played with Hank Aaron. There was no security attached to Hank and the Braves. I wasn't there when he broke the record but I was there when he was approaching and stuff started happening - hate letters and yelling - and there wasn't speculation about him.

I thought the guy was out. Saw a strike on the corner that was not ruled a strike.

He had a great BP today. He's coming along.

Batting third could help him hit .300 for the first time. He's too good a hitter not to have done that.

I feel that even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman in the ninth. That's something I haven't seen in a long time. Anytime they bring that guy in, everybody knows the game is over.

Tomko had a tough time. They hit him pretty good. We put a left-hander in to stop the bleeding. They're a tough offensive team against righty pitching.

We want starting pitchers to be able to pitch (in the spring), even if they're going to give up runs. We want to get away from the trap we were in last year with a lot of three- and four-inning starts.

They want to make it tough for him. I'm not saying it's intentional, I'm just saying they won't give him a pitch to hit.

I've seen it happen. You think you're going to get better, and you get worse.

They are, to me right now, one of the most complete teams in baseball.

Closer to our A' team will be playing tomorrow. You're talking about Bonds and (Steve) Finley and (Mark) Sweeney.

We believe he's going to hit one every time up.

He's thrown the ball well in Los Angeles, and we are trying to win games - that's another factor.

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

No question there was one guy who could dominate this ballpark and hit balls out that was Barry. We miss him on the field, an MVP guy. We've been spoiled here.

We didn't have plans for him to do that. Not only that, he had to do that coming back from injuries. He had to do it because the club needed him.

I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 -- I never thought I'd see that here. Then, losing 100 games seemed like a possibility, then 90 games. All of those things could have been a reality here. The grave seemed like a reality here, but the guys didn't let it happen.