John Gibbons Quotes (249 Quotes)

The last couple of years, he actually pitched pretty good for no spring training, but it caught up with him after a few starts. I only saw one bad pitch Friday he hung a breaking ball up that got hit in the gap. This gives him a chance to start the season off in shape.

The game doesn't wait on you.

You win a couple hundred games because you make pitches at certain times that stop damage. That's just what he did.

I'm sure there's been some guys who have been using it for a number of years. Like anything else, some do, some don't. I guess we have see when there's day games after night games.

He's off to a good start, but he's getting caught up in good starts by all of them. Good starts are contagious. But he's a good hitter -- he's proven that.

He goes through streaks every year, good streaks offensively and defensively. He was very diligent during Spring Training. He's got a great swing path working right now, and just happens to be swinging the bat real well.

Not one bit. Not the way we played, ... You play 162 games. They all hurt, but we'll go out of here holding our head high. I'll tell you that.

The more we saw him out there, we figured, 'It's time to put him in there.' And we may have held on to him a little bit long, not playing against lefties early. ... Russ He just keeps getting better and better.

We have to keep them happy. We'll make it work.

It's a win. Does it matter how it's played ... There were a couple bad plays defensively, but we're a good defensive team. That's very rare. Very rare.

All we can do is hope he's not out a long period of time. It's unfortunate because we're expecting a lot out of him this year.

You watch Ortiz the last couple years -- there's not a more clutch player out there. I don't care who you're talking about. Of course, the guy behind him ain't bad either.

We'll get Q (Quiroz) in but I wouldn't want to attach a number to it,

It's that same area where he had that problem last year. So he only threw a few pitches and shut it down. After you have an injury, it might just be some scar tissue.

You never anticipate two of your top guys being out. But you know it happens to everybody along the line. You just have to deal with it. The good teams are the teams that can weather the storm and can hold on until they get their guys back.

He got the number of pitches he needed. He didn't look bad. That one inning, he was scattering a little bit. Other than that, he pitched okay.

We'll keep in touch with the doctors. If he starts feeling good and goes out there and pushes it, he might make it worse. Then where are we That tournament is a nice thing, but we need him for the season.

We want to get him some playing time. He's caught Bush very well. I plan on getting Ken Huckaby in there, too.

He was in trouble but he hung in there.

His command is there. That is a big thing of his and he has it early.

The good pitchers were ahead of the hitters today.

He's our guy. I'm not worried about his struggles at all. If you look at it, he's had some tough luck. He's hit some balls on the money right at guys. We think he's going to hit. He proved enough to us last year.

I've been around some good baseball people, but he's so good in all phases of the game. You're not going to find a better worker, you're not going to find a guy who cares as much. Sometimes he probably cares too much, but he's just top notch all the way around.

But if you've been paying attention and seen what he has done, he has got a pretty good argument on his side.

He's going to be excited. He'll probably be throwing 100 miles an hour. I just hope it's 100 strikes.

It's big, it's the second time it's happened to him. Nothing you can do about it, you've got to move on. . . . He was throwing good, he was throwing hard.

Their infield defense is as good as anybody's in baseball.

We got good news. The X-rays came back good, it's probably just a little scar tissue. It's big, big news.

I expect, once he settles in -- it may takes him a couple hitters, it may take him an inning or two -- once he gets over that, he should be fine. We're not going to yank him at the first sign of trouble because he's here and he's got to learn how to pitch in those situations.

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Obviously, it's a great thing to honor your country and to get that type of experience on such a big stage, but we're a little bit selfish in wanting those guys back as soon as possible. With so many new faces in camp this year, ideally you'd like to have all of them around as much as possible to establish chemistry and continuity in your lineup. But it's a great experience for Vernon, who's getting the most playing time of anyone.

The platoon is still on, he just hits Vazquez good.

You're never satisfied of course. But I look at the big picture, some of the things that have happened, things that might have happened, have a chance to happen and I feel good.

I think the baseball world is not giving them as much credit as they deserve. They're a good ball club, they proved that last year, just too many outside influences affected them.

If the Yanks don't win the division, they'll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

The walk to Gomez hurts.

The longer you're around, guys see you enough, you figure some guys out. They've got good arms, they've got the stuff to get guys out regardless. It's all about locating and pitching ahead.

At this stage of the game we've got come out of it over .500, no question, ... Boston's rolling, the Yanks aren't going to fold and the wild card's all bunched up. We definitely need a good trip.

Since he's come back, I've liked everything we've gotten out of him, ... Sometimes, he hasn't gotten any run support -- he's lost some tight ballgames. His won-loss record, I think, is misleading.

When you're playing certain teams in the league, you know you've got to score. We scored five last night and then five in one inning tonight. You know you have to do that, and the pitching did a nice job. But, yeah, the add-on runs are key.

He kept them off-balance, that was the key for him. He competes, man, he competes. He wants to prove something.

That's what we're shooting for. He threw a side session Sunday and played some catch today. I think Wednesday, they want a simulated game.

It was a little bit of a sloppy game tonight. We'll bounce back tomorrow. Errors are part of the game.

We looked like a team tonight. It's the first time we have had our whole lineup out there and, yeah, the pitching was solid.

We survived it, we move on. There's more tough ones ahead of us.

He had great stuff. He went out there a few times and pitched very good for us. He may have had a tender elbow at times. To be honest with you, it doesn't surprise me. We knew he could pitch.

But there's not a lot of time left (in the season), so I don't know yet what it means.

The thing about Crawford is he's got some big-time power, too. He can beat you in so many ways. They're pretty much the same guy once they get on, you know they're going to get their bases, it's tough to get them even when everything goes right.

Just chalk it up to part of maturation. He's going to have those bad outings, ... He's ahead of schedule just by being here. We're trying to balance it, too.

He (Rios) wasn't benched (yesterday), he wasn't going to play (yesterday), ... Reed (Johnson) got three hits the night before and that's why he's in right.