Lance Berkman Quotes (62 Quotes)

I knew I hit it good, but I wasn't thinking home run. The whole time I was wondering if it was going to be fair or foul. I kind of watched and at the last minute it straightened out and died in the corner. The guy reached his glove out and caught it, and I knew they were going to call it at least a double.

This is probably the result of coming back too soon last year. I'm sure that I'm not going to be going full bore at the start (of camp). I'll be working my way back into it.

That's what we're supposed to do and it's good when we can do it. It's not going to happen like that all the time. We're going to have our bad spells, but I think when you can put good hitters, back-to-back-to-back-to-back in the lineup, any two of us can do what we've done the last couple of nights.

It just goes to show you that anybody can have an off night. He is just a great performer, and you expect him to throw well. At the same time, he's a human being, too.

I don't feel like I'm on fire, but I'm getting my hits. I still have those at bats when I feel like I'm back in spring training. I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong. If I feel like this all year and hit good that's fine.

With the hitters we have, we are a threat to hit homers any time. I told Preston to stop showing me up. It seems like whenever I hit a home run, he gets up and hits one twice as far.

It's a very high honor, ... I remember when I was being recruited to go there and they take you through the hall of honor and see all the guys' pictures and stuff. It doesn't even cross your mind then that one day you'll have your picture up there.

We know it's an important series and they know it's important, ... A lot of times, you can get to a guy before he settles in and gets his good control. A lot of times, that's how you beat a good pitcher, get to him early.

A lot of times, if you can get to a guy early before he settles in and finds his control, a lot of times it's how good pitchers get beat. They come out a little wild. I think that's what happened. Once he settled down, he was surely impressive.

I think that's just one of those weird things in the game of baseball. At some point, you've gotta think the Phillies are due.

You can't give the opposing team's pitcher too much credit. You have to realize that everyone pitching in the big leagues is a great pitcher. But that doesn't mean that they can make a great pitch every single time.

There's nothing that's going to take away the hurt. Nothing can take it away from any of us. We all feel for him. There's nothing you can say, but we love him.

He's not a guy who's going to give you a lot of different looks,

We're the grunts. We just play baseball. Open it. Close it. I don't care.

He did what he always does. It's amazing that on a day like this that he was able to focus and perform.

This will probably never happen to him in his career again, giving up home runs in consecutive games. It's one of those freak things.

I don't care how he pitches. He's out there and his mom just passed away. If he pitches great or not, it's not going to matter one bit to anybody in here.

People have been saying we have the best schedule for the wild-card race, but I don't know that's true, ... These guys are tough, and we still have to play the game. Anything can happen, and obviously tonight Roger didn't have his best stuff, and they capitalized on it and we weren't able to stay in the game.

But as I've gone along, I've realized that hey, one at-bat the guy might completely dominate you, but the next time, he might make a mistake. Don't be overawed by one at-bat. See that those guys are human too, and they are going to make mistakes.

I don't think Major League Baseball should have the right to tell us about the roof. They're trying to take the home-field advantage from us. I don't think that's right.

Last year, we were probably an Andy Pettitte short of going to the World Series.

We don't give up, we don't let circumstances bother us. I think we have a group of mentally tough guys. We've experienced a lot of disappointment together and we've come back from that and experienced a lot of great things together.

I love that guy. He's like my big brother in the game. People have trouble understanding what he means to people in this locker room. His impact is huge.

If we win (the wild card), it's because we have unbelievable starting pitching,

It's night and day. We have very few of the same personnel. We don't have too many established guys, but I think we've got guys that are gritty and compete well with the bat.

We had some chances and I'm still trying to figure out why I missed that hanging curveball (in a sixth-inning strikeout). The double late in the game was good but that wasn't the story. We should have been ahead before that.

It's good we still control our own fate, but we've got to take care of business tomorrow.

We miss his bat. There's no doubt about that.

We know it's a big series, and they know it's a big series. A lot of times you can get to a guy before he settles in. A lot of times that's the only way to beat a good pitcher.

If we had had Pettitte last year, we might have won the World Series. He's that important. He's that valuable. To have him healthy this year, even though we kind of subtracted some pieces offensively, I think the addition of Pettitte cancels those out.

We weren't going to win the rest of them, ... Nobody expected us to go 9-0 over the last nine games. It would have been nice, but these guys are getting paid to play, just like we are. They're a tough team. We certainly have our hands full. We just have to regroup and come back tomorrow.

You've got seven games left with the Cubs, and you're looking at (maybe) facing (Carlos) Zambrano and (Mark) Prior two times each, ... That's not something you can point to as an advantage.

MLB takes care of it. They're the ones here in force. They've got crew chiefs. They've got all kinds of personnel,

I was talking to Texas third baseman Hank Blalock , and he's in his first Derby, and I told him 'The only thing I can tell you is you got to take pitches,' ... A lot of times, you get it into your thinking that 'I can hit anything.' But you have to get a few good pitches to hit.

I feel like Wandy's thrown the ball really well the whole year, ... I know he's had a few rough starts, but you can't expect a rookie to come up and give the innings he's given us.

All I do, ... is eat. And drink coffee.

It's definitely a more even series than a 100-win team against an 89-win team. A big part of their second half was spent just trying not to get hurt. They weren't playing for anything. They had such a big lead. I expect them to be different than the last time we saw them.

Garner and Berkman agreed the big deal with the Cards was not about the Central Division, but about winning and staying in pursuit of the wild card lead. Since I've been here, the playoff spots have come down to the last game or two, ... so all of them are important.

Obviously being 0-2 is not where you want to be. But at the same time, we play well here and we know that if we win a couple games we're right back in it.

We've done a nice job at the plate. There's going to be ups and downs and you just have to try to enjoy the times we're swinging the bats well. The last three games we've done a good job competing and putting up runs.

Viz is another guy that I think is great with not only the Latino guys but he's also great for guys like me. Anybody can draw on his wealth of experience. They set a standard for the right way to play the game and the right way to conduct yourself in the clubhouse and on the field. Their example is very important.

Devastating. We were going to the World Series.

It's really unbelievable. What can you possibly say about it We're not that bad a team. We don't have that bad an offense. It just seems like every time Roger pitches, the other guy elevates his game. You get the other pitcher's best game of the season -- if not their career -- on that night. I've never seen anything like it.

You have to be patient, ... He makes a lot of good pitches and doesn't make many mistakes, and when he does make a mistake, you have to capitalize on it. If we get an opportunity to score, we need to do it and not let him off the hook. He's too good for that.

To win the series we obviously had to win at least one game here. It was big for our confidence, not having won one here last year, to pick up this victory. But that doesn't mean we're going to sweep them when we go home. They're a tough team. This is going to be a long series. I think it's going to go six or seven games. Hopefully we'll come out on top.

It was devastating. We thought we were going to the World Series. We were there. Obviously, it was a high to a low, and it wasn't much fun.

It's unbelievable, I can't even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

It's a good place to hit, there's no doubt about that. I don't make too much of those kinds of things, but it's certainly a ballpark that is more favorable for the hitters.

I think he didn't have great command on what he's trying to do out there. He's been very tough against us, so it was good to jump on him early.