Kevin Millar Quotes (50 Quotes)

A lot of guys do stuff off the field. As a baseball player, and that's what it's about, I would love to see him in the Hall of Fame before he dies. Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Everybody wanted to play like Pete Rose.

I mean, every year's different. You don't want to make a living doing this, but we find a way to toughen up when it's crunch time and we got to win each inning right now. We don't have an inning to give away.

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

It's an exciting time. I'm excited personally to turn the page from last year and come out and prove the doubts wrong.

The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

Right now is too late to do that in the season. I'm not going anywhere. I'm somehow part of this club right now.

Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.

Kevin Millar , the subject of trade rumors recently, reiterated his importance in the clubhouse because of his close relationship with Manny Ramirez . He and I are as close as you can be as a teammate and friend, ... I spend more time with him on the road probably than a lot of guys, whether it be working out, whether it be eating lunch, or just hanging out. Do other guys take the time or effort to do that No.

I love it here. Baltimore is a great baseball town and Camden Yards is a great stadium. I've always liked Camden Yards, and it's even better being on the home side. We've got a football field for a clubhouse, an awesome jacuzzi and our own parking lot. How can you complain.

One hundred percent, this is where he wanted to be. He's worked so hard to get back here. He's worked so hard for the opportunity.

I think (the fans) can relate with me because I was just a normal old guy. Just being normal. Wasn't the most talented guy, but they can always remember, 'At least he gave us 100 percent of what he had, which wasn't a lot.' Team guy, fun guy and nothing more than that.

I think he's the best big-game pitcher of our generation.

It was one of those things where we just got swept. There's a winner and a loser and we were the loser. That's baseball.

It's always nice when you get a chance to play against your old teammates for the first time. There are a lot of guys you haven't seen since last season. Now I'm a member of the Orioles, but it was great to see those guys, great to give them all hugs.

He's usually a down-and-away guy. On 3 and 1, I shut my swing down a little bit and got a nice pitch he left over the middle.

I love it. I've done it my whole career. I enjoy giving the flexibility to the manager. But the main place you want to play is in the batter's box. I want to hit, I want to go to the plate. It doesn't matter if I'm at DH, first, left, right, or third base

They're trying to go down and in to get the ground ball. It's like a cat-and-mouse game. These are playoff games. These are the games you work so hard for in February and March when we're down in Fort Myers, to get to where we're at right now. We control our own destiny. We've got to win baseball games and we'll see what happens.

I'd rather lose this way than a 1-0 game. We'll shower and come back tomorrow.

He's the best clutch hitter in the game. If there's an M.V.P. in the American League, he's getting my vote times a zillion.

The kid has electric stuff. Let's see how he does here in the Nation.

The gods of baseball wanted this to happen.

The fun begins (tonight). It's going to be a hell of a series.

It has nothing to do anymore with beating the Yankees. We're trying to play good baseball and win a bunch of series.

No doubt about it, it's never as easy as people think. I don't think losing three, four, five position players is easy to replace. Having to replace the general manager, it's tough. But can they do it Of course they can. They have a high payroll and they'

It's going to be three Super Bowl games. Whoever set the schedule this year is a genius.

This division is where you want to be as a baseball player. There's nothing like it. It's like 162 playoff games.

Spotting and painting. Radke was Radke. Period. He's got great arm action on his changeup. He's a great pitcher ... seemed like he could do whatever he wanted with the baseball.

That's baseball. Anybody can win any given night. It just takes that one swing in a game and tonight we couldn't get that.

Manny took one for the team. That's why he's the No. 1 RBI man in the world for the last nine years.

I'm ready to play baseball, man.

I'll tell you what, it's a huge loss for the Red Sox. Personally I think Theo was very, very smart and intelligent about understanding baseball players, understanding what kind of team to bring in and what group of guys could gel together. I think he's proven that for three years that he was there. We won a championship, we won 95 games three straight seasons. He's been tremendous for myself personally. I wish him the best of luck, I'm sure he'll have a lot of takers out there.

I'll never be in great shape. Mentally, I think I am tougher. Does that mean I am going to go out and hit .350 with 35 home runs Probably not. Baseball is a tough game. If it wasn't tough, there would be more than 750 in the world doing it.

I gotta stay in tight with him. I can't let him get his arms extended. I'm going to work the body and the lower knee area.

It's going to be three Super Bowl games. It's going to be two heavyweight fighters going at it, tremendous clubs. Whoever set the schedules this year is a genius. This club has been there and done this before. We just have to focus on (Friday's) game and not worry about how many games we have to win and what the scenarios are.

It felt good to contribute to a big win tonight.

He's got a great demeanor. He carries himself like a professional and, obviously, he's got tremendous upside. I think this kid's got legitimate talent and probably has a legitimate shot at making this club.

What happens is he's trying to go away there. Javy Lopez was set up down and away. That's what we do as hitters, we hit mistakes. The ball came over the inside part of the plate and I put a good swing on it. I got the barrel to the ball.

I think right now everybody has already showered it off. We'll be playing cards on the plane and getting ready for the Orioles series. One thing is we have short-term memories -- that's the Sox. That's what you have to have in this game. We've had our backs against the wall, we've had adversity, we've had positives. But we're going to battle all the way to the end.

Obviously we have to stay healthy, we need good pitching and a lot of things have to go your way. But you know what If everybody does what they're capable of doing on the field, this team can compete with anybody.

It's going to be three Super Bowl games with two heavyweight fighters. There's going to be energy in the city, in the media and with the fans. It's going to be awesome.

There's no right answer. They're all great players.

They just got the big two-out hits and we didn't, and that was the difference in the ball game. We've got a lot of baseball left.

You don't want to make a living down four or five runs. But to know that you have the confidence to come back is nice.

You dont want to make a living out of being down four runs in this game, but youre going to be down at times, ... The bottom line is, this lineup can do that.

It felt good to contribute, ... This is not about me, its about the Red Sox.

Everybody was a little worried at first with the whole guys not swinging the bat, but you know what, there's a different light switch on opening day and this group showed up to play. It's a lineup that doesn't run well, but we can hit the baseball.

You are a rock star when you play in that city, regardless. We deal with that daily. Boston is ... unique. Boston is a small city, it's Sox Nation. People live, die, eat and breathe baseball. I think now our job as a group is to come in here and make everybody, you know, be a rock star.

The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.

I pulled the ball a lot more than I wanted to the last couple years. The big thing is that I've squared back up, and I'm allowing my hands to work.

There will be a time when I'll hit five home runs in a 10-day span.