Jose Vidro Quotes (44 Quotes)

I'm very happy. Everything was good today. It was a lot better.

Basically, he said I need the surgery if I'm going to play without this pain next year,

I feel for them now. They won't be able to see me play. This is not an easy decision. Hopefully, I get another chance. But, as of right now, this is my team, and I've got to be able to play for them this year.

When I came back, my knee started hurting me. If I do the running and the exercises, it will help me better for a long time.

I understand everything Soriano is saying. I would probably try to work it out. That's a team decision. I hope that both of us can be in the lineup at the same time. That would be great, because adding Soriano to the team is very good. I'm waiting for the team to make the right decision. Some way, somehow, we have to get this working. I'm happy that both of us are here.

I'm going to have to make a decision in a couple of days, ... The doctor suggests I need to clean my knee again, to do another surgery.

I was ready to play but I wanted to make sure my conditioning was OK. My concern was running around the bases. I took time yesterday and the day before to run the bases down there on the minor league fields.

It has been very disappointing, ... This was the season in which I was hoping to come back and be the player that I was a couple of years ago.

It's up to me -- it's my call, ... Hopefully, I can start the game tomorrow. The pain has gone down a lot, and I think I can go out there and produce.

We can't let this go on. I know it's early. It's only eight games, but we have to make this change.

Something's got to be changed, but it's up to us. The changes that need to be done are within ourselves. The guys who are in the lineup need to perform.

It is different from last year, definitely. I thought it was going to be a full crowd, like last year. It didn't happen that way.

We've been hearing since the beginning of the season, 'Oh, next month. Oh, next month. Oh, next month.' Here we are, and we still don't have an owner. It could hurt a lot because a lot of guys have their hands tied again.

Last year, I thought it was over with, ... But it keeps happening again. ... This is a pain that doesn't want to go away.

We've been told since the beginning of the season, 'Oh, next week,' 'Oh, next week,' 'Oh, next week.' Well, here we are, three games to go in the season and we don't have an owner,

Right now, I feel like I'm capable of playing every day, ... We'll see what happens after tonight.

I told Frank I want to play a lot more. I want to see how my body reacts after three days and we go from there.

I'm very happy I didn't do the surgery. I'm very happy I went home and busted, worked hard and made myself better. ... I want to show the organization that they can count on me for the whole year. That's important to me.

I just want to be the player that I was a couple years ago. If I stay healthy, I'm going to do that.

I will be playing close to every day from tomorrow on. Everything feels fine. I will run tomorrow, and I'm pretty excited to get going.

You've got to get a lot of things out of your head when you are hurt year in and year out. You go back and have the same injury again, that stays in your head. I was able to overcome all of that. Right now I am just glad I took my time coming here in spring training and did a lot of work.

We have plenty of time to work on it but we are going to have to deal with it the dimensions.

It's an airplane field, it's not baseball dimensions.

My knee feels great. My body feels great. All that hard work I put into my lower body is going to pay off. I enjoyed playing the game.

I don't know if I'm going to be here by the time they build the stadium, but obviously that's a great step. This ball club is going forward, and that's very good news.

When you have a group of guys the talent that we have here it's getting old definitely. We expect people to do the job on a consistent basis. Maybe one day we do it but we go out three days without doing it.

It was only 3-0. If you don't have a ball club that can come back from a 3-0 deficit you're in trouble. We've got what it takes to come back. It just didn't happen.

When I hit that ball, I thought I had a shot, but we are in Washington, so I had to run. Who knows what could have happened after that. The bottom line is that we lost tonight.

I just really can't wait for this week to be over. I want to go home and relax my mind. I just got to get out of this game right now for my health.

This ball club is a lot better than last year. There's no way we're going to keep doing this.

It's time to make a decision. Somebody should take the responsibility and tell us how it's going to be, ... They just need to treat us like a big-league team. I don't understand why. Somebody should make a decision.

Once they get the butterflies out of their heads, they'll be fine. I went through that. The first couple of games you try to do too much. I don't know if that's the case, but it looks like that, because they're swinging at really bad pitches. But they're both good players, and I think they're going to bounce back. It's only four games.

You know what The way baseball officials are letting this thing go, I don't think they care. If they would have cared about us, I think they would have made the decision at the end of last year, when they saw what we went through.

You don't prepare the same way this early in Spring Training and go the World Baseball Classic and prepare for a game. I thought about it a long time, and I thought it was best for me to stay here. We felt the same thing about Ayala. Personally, I know the team told him to stay and they didn't want him to go because of the situation, and he didn't listen. Hopefully, he learns from this.

Basically, what the doctor told me, is that my legs need to get stronger to take the pressure off my knee.

This ballpark is not a good ballpark. It killed us last year, and it's going to kill us again this year. The organization looked deep into it last year, saw what happened and didn't change anything, so I guess they didn't care about it.

It killed us last year and I am pretty sure it's going to kill us this year.

Obviously, we're not doing a good job out there on the field, consistently. Probably, at the end of the year, I'll express myself, because there's a lot of changes that need to be made. But I don't want to go into it right now.

My past two years have been injury-plagued. This spring training is very important for me.

I felt today that my knee was stronger than what it was, ... Right now, it's just going to be pain. ... The cortisone shot helped me a lot and also the time off the field I was able to get.

Dr. Thomas knew I made the right decision by avoiding surgery. Everything is going like we planned. But I had to work hard and that's what I have been doing.

This is the best I've felt going into the season. It feels good every time I wake up in the morning. I feel better than I did the day before. That's probably the biggest reason I've got a big smile this spring training.

I don't remember the last time I felt this good going into the season.

Everything went fine this winter with the program that I was going with my leg. I want to keep doing it here to make sure I don't miss any games during the season.