Marcus Giles Quotes (42 Quotes)

I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my shirt. That's why I shut it down. I'm glad I shut it down.

If I could pick any time for us to get hot, it would be right now,

Finally, I think this is our first solid game - great pitching and, more importantly, timely hitting. It was just a good game overall.

People are just saying that so they can have something to print.

Obviously a double play is not in order with the runners going, so as a defender you're thinking, 'Get the runner out,' ... When the swinging bunt happened, I had it my mind that I was going home, hoping that Pedro didn't get alerted that I was going.

Oh, he's ready. It's going to be fun to watch.

It's not worth it. We're going all the way to Halloween. You can get him then.

You've got to give them some credit. They've got some good veteran hitters over there.

It's definitely surprising. But it's so early, we have time to rebound. I think the last thing we want to do is panic. We just need to stick with each other and play hard and we'll work it out.

He was pretty good, ... He's mixing in a curveball now. Every time I played behind him he never had a curveball.

When you lose a game, it spoils everything. It takes all of us to win a game, that's obvious. It's a team game. The loss overshadows anything personal.

I think that was huge for me, personally, to get my confidence back and get my legs back under me. I feel great. I feel like I'm right back on track.

We all know how good a pitcher he is, ... He sure proved it today. The same with our pitcher. He threw a pretty good game, too.

I think these last three games showed that anything can happen at any point in the game. That's exactly the reason why you keep focusing on the job and get the job done.

I think if I could pick any time for us to get hot, it's right now.

In the last few years we've hit a bad spell right now because we've already clinched,

From a personal standpoint, I hate to lose Roman he's got a great future ahead of him. From a team standpoint, we need to make moves that can fit in like a piece in a puzzle. Kyle Farnsworth fits in a little better into our puzzle right now.

I thought that all year we didn't want to peak too early. I think that's been our problem in the past, that we've peaked too early and then relaxed.

It's not a 'rah-rah' college atmosphere, but it's fun and it's exciting. We're here to win ball games. It's almost like we're 10 years old playing Little League again.

Same old Pedro he's been the last couple of years. He keeps you off balance. We had our chances, we just couldn't get any clutch hits.

Now we control our own destiny, ... We've just got to play good ball these next three games. Right now we need to get it (clinching) done at home.

Way to use your head, Roachy.

When a team comes out and gets a little momentum like that, I think it's very imperative to come out and throw a crooked number up on the board the next half inning. It's a quick momentum shift back to our side. Once we got that shift, it just seemed like we held it from there.

With these young guys, we have the intensity we need. It's almost like we're 10 years old playing in Little League again, but winning's more important now. It's just a lot of fun in the clubhouse now before the game and after the game.

Hopefully, he's got good insurance.

You should see his golf swing. It's unbelievable.

When you lose a game it just spoils everything. The loss overshadows anything personal.

It's just Huddy for you. Obviously, he didn't have the stuff he wanted to have today, but he got the job done.

Giles said. ''We've got it now. With these young guys we have the intensity that we need. It's almost like we're 10 years old playing Little League again, but winning is more important now.

It's either that or don't play for another week or two. I'm tired of missing time. It's brutal.

We need to step it up another notch before Wednesday. It seems like we've been sitting around on our heels the past few weeks playing not to get hurt. When you do that, you wind up playing not to win, and we have to clean that up before our first playoff game.

In the last few years, we hit a bad spell right about now because it had been a while since we clinched.

It's me and all. I'll take all the blame if something were to happen.

It's just great to see our starters going deep in games and our bullpen getting some confidence. Now, all we need to do is keep grinding, get some hitters back, and I think we'll be fine.

Atlanta seems to need only Andruw Jones, who knocks in all five runs in the first game and makes two diving catches to seal a 5-2 victory. With 13 consecutive division championships, the Braves think of the last segment of the season as a diversion rather

It's good to see some other guys besides our big dogs do something to help us out. If we want to go to the playoffs and go deep into the playoffs, we definitely can't rely on those two or we're in trouble. Not that they can't do it, but it's going to take all 25 of us.

Two-out hits are always good. Furcal kept the inning going with the single up the middle. I was fortunate to hit one. It was a good overall team win.

That'd be cool, ... and it'd mean one of us is going to the World Series.

To me, it's not worth losing one of your top guys and they can't play the rest of the year for a concert. It kind of seems silly to me. Maybe we can learn something from this.

Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue.

The good thing right now is we are going home and we play well at home in front of our fans.

Running away with it is the last thing we need to do. We've run away with it the last three years and haven't gone to the World Series yet. I think we get a little too caught up in winning the division. We always want to pat ourselves on the back ... for winning 13 in a row. Let's see how many World Series we can win in a row, or even get to.