Phil Garner Quotes on Time (22 Quotes)

This team has a lot of character. And as someone who has lived in Houston a long time, I know how long our fans have been waiting for this and how much it means to them. They've earned it.

He just made outstanding plays and very smart plays, so there's no reason why he's not on track there. The first time you're out there, sometimes you over-try. I remember him saying the upper deck gave him a little bit of trouble at times. There's no reason why he can't have another good showing.

Obviously, when you have depth, it's good in one respect for the team, but it's difficult, because if everybody stays healthy, somebody doesn't get much playing time. We'll have to wait until we get to spring training to see how that plays out.

I think Houston and baseball fans around the country really enjoy watching the legend pitch now, perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time. If there's anything that comes after this, that's up to Roger.

It might be a little more difficult to get (Quintero) a whole lot of playing time, ... Chavez has had playoff experience, and he's caught our whole staff more than Quintero.

If he hits a ball hard, you can get him out. If he hits it soft, he'll beat it out every time. He has an incredible burst the last 15 feet or so. There have been six or seven times this season when an umpire will anticipate a little bit and call him out a

This will be good for Brandon. He had a good amount of time off. I'm hoping he's healthy, and I think he will be. He needs to go out to pitch like it's the first game of the World Series.

Definitely saw him more in the strike zone. I saw him down in the strike zone more and then saw him go up (in the zone) when he wanted to go up. That's what you wanted to see. You want to see him within basically the mitt most of the time.

Last year, he was incredibly good, and this year he struggled a little bit early. But when it came to crunch time, he started coming on.

What you saw is some of our typical games. And we managed to somehow get through it and we just didn't eke it out this time.

How stupid can it get You just keep getting shut out, it's just stupid. It's hard to get shut out in today's game. Somebody's going to get a hit, drive in a run. But we're just having a heck of a time with it.

I'm a resident of Houston, and I was unemployed at the time, when they were talking about bringing Andy back,

Wandy did a super job today and that was huge for us. Our pitching has done a marvelous job the last six games. You have to feel good any time they pitch, but I'd like to see our offense come around a little. The guys are grinding and by me saying this, it'll probably put more pressure on them.

I don't think he's much changed from last year. He's a very confident player. I just think he's more determined now because he wants more playing time.

I've been saying for quite some time now that Lamb is going to have to be a big plus for us down this stretch drive, and he is starting to swing the bat like we've seen in the past. It was a big lift tonight. We don't know how much longer Morgan is going to be out, but if he (Lamb) can step up and swing with power like we know he can, I think that will help everybody's confidence a little bit.

I wish we didn't have to do that, but that's what it is. The good news is we're not traveling, but I think 12 is going to be difficult for us. I'd prefer 1 o'clock, more of a regular time. ... We would just all prefer to be in our routines, and we don't normally get up at 9 o'clock and get into a stretching and getting-ready-to-play-a-game mode.

I don't think he's going to be running for political office any time soon. He just enjoys pitching. If he could just move all this into his hometown, I think he'd be perfectly fine with that.

He had to have a few stitches in his middle finger. He'll be out for a few days. We don't know a time frame on that yet.

We've played with it closed most of the year, I want to say about 85 percent of the time, ... I find it strange that somebody would say we have to open it now. But bottom line is, I think that with it closed, it does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. We play for that excitement and that noise.

I think Chris is a very confident player. I wouldn't say he's more confident (than last year), but he's more determined than ever that he wants more playing time. We certainly saw good results today.

I told Bruntlett he missed the cutoff man again tonight, ... But that's because he threw it so fast, the cutoff guy couldn't get there in time. He made a great play. He made a super play.

I've never seen it where the crowd cheers as much when he breaks his bat and the ball rolls 10 feet. The place goes crazy. Most of the time, people go crazy when a guy takes a big swing, and they go 'Ooooh...' This guy, in our park, he nibbles one and everyone starts going nuts.