Jim Leyland Quotes on Home (3 Quotes)

He's the real deal, there's no question about that. It's spring training, so you've got to be careful. I'm not making my judgments on a home run or two that he hit. But let's face it, over the years every now and then but not very often you see a player in his uniform and you know that guy's a big league player. It doesn't happen very often, but he certainly looks the part to me.

It was a weak ground ball that got a run home. It was a free RBI. He battled his tail off and got the run in. It wasn't pretty, but that's the difference between 100 RBIs and 85. It doesn't look like a line drive in the paper, but it looked real important to me. That's the kind of stuff you're looking for.

Everybody thinks every time a guy hits a home run, it's because of a mistake. I don't buy into that.