Matt Holliday Quotes (28 Quotes)

It's more gratifying to do things that help the team win. Personally it feels good, but at the same time it's a team game. To be able to do your job is gratifying. To be able to do things to help the team win is gratifying. I was able to do that tonight.

What Todd went through was an aberration. He makes it easier for me and (Atkins) because he's on base every time we come up.

I've been working on timing and getting my hands in the right position, just trying to get that feel back. It's hard to explain. You can do it in batting practice and you can do it in the cage, but to get in the game and to be able to settle your nerves a little bit and get in that mode when you can still get your swing off when the velocity picks up and you start facing off-speed pitches. I'm trying to find that rhythm, that timing.

But you have to give some credit to Brian Lawrence , and that bullpen is pretty tough. We needed to find a way to scratch out runs and we didn't do it.

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

It was nice to be able to at least get a hit, and the home run was icing on the cake.

He's a good pitcher, ... But you always feel like you have a good chance against the guy. He's not overpowering. He has to pitch to get outs, and he lost his command a little bit in that one inning.

I looked up there after the first six or seven guys and thought, 'We've got one out, and that was me,'

We've got some good hitters who aren't necessarily all-or-nothing hitters. I'm mostly sitting on fastballs the whole time and reacting to the off-speed stuff.

When it's one game, especially at this time of year when hitters are still trying to feel their way through it a little bit, it's tough. As a hitter, you're not quite locked in yet.

I'm very prepared and very comfortable to take on any role they ask me to take on as far as leadership goes, as far as being out in the public,

We're at that level of knowing we can play here and play well at this level. You hate to get really excited ...

I'd do the same thing if it was my decision.

He wants you to have that slow breaking ball of his in the back of your mind so he can sneak his fastball in on you. He pitched me tough. I might have swung at some bad pitches, but he gets the credit.

I'm very concerned. Any time you have to go to the hospital, it's never a good thing. When I leave here, I'm going to see if I can call him.

It was business as usual. Obviously we miss them. They're great players. But we still have to come out and do our jobs.

I'd make the same play. I'd just throw it about a foot lower. I got a little excited and thought we had a force there. It just kind of sailed on me. Somehow it found the dugout, but oh well. We won.

I couldn't pick up his fastball. I just had trouble with him.

Having experienced things going on two years now, I'm not a veteran by any means, but I feel like maybe I have some advice to offer.

I don't think any time you run into your teammate it can be too positive. But maybe it did jostle something loose.

I just went on contact, as soon as I saw the downward angle on the ball. Good thing it wasn't hit that hard.

I think that's just the way Todd is. He's just a perfectionist. He could be hitting .400 but in his mind he thinks he's not doing enough because he's missing pitches or not doing the things he should. He's not happy with a 2-for-4, 2-for-5. He wants to go 4-for-4 every day.

We're going out and playing relaxed. Getting some early momentum on the road is good for confidence, too. We're confident on the road.

I'm taking (the training) a little more seriously than I normally would to speed up the process. I don't care if people say I was a surprise pick. I feel like it's an honor and the people who made the decision to put me on the team know what they are talking about. To play for your country is something you can hold on to the rest of your life.

It was important for us to win. You send the fans away with a couple wins and there were big crowds with the series against the Giants. You hope that brings them back and establishes some momentum against the Giants, who we play a whole bunch more times.

No problem for me. I've got nothing to hide. That's the second time for me (including an MLB test), so I'm used to it.

It was kind of humbling. It's fun with these type games. When you're on the winning side, it's fun. When you're on the losing side, it's terrible.

Most of us are pretty good friends and we've played together a lot, so I think if anybody goes through ups and downs or needs advice, or needs just a friend to talk to, I feel like I can be that guy for them,