Richie Sexson Quotes (39 Quotes)

We've been struggling with our at-bats. But we've stuck with our game plan. We've been blaming (the slump) on the fact that we've been facing good pitchers. And we have. We saw another one tonight. And it sure is good to see Ichiro going again.

If it does work, then there's a base open and they're going to walk me anyway. I don't understand the theory why he stole there. It doesn't seem to be a good green-light situation with two outs. I'd rather there not be a base open and give me a chance to drive in the run.

The meat of our order hasn't really done anything. We're still winning games and floating around .500, so that's good. As soon as we start clicking and doing some things that we can do, we'll start winning more consistently.

Teams like Kansas City coming in here are scary, ... Eventually, they have to win. You just hope it's not you.

They threw three pitchers at us this weekend who didn't miss a spot in three days. If they did, we fouled it back. When a team collectively doesn't hit like this, you can be pretty sure it's the pitching.

This way, we're getting an actual day off. It's a long season. Some teams kill themselves traveling on the off day. It'll be a long day (Sunday), but we should be ready to go (today).

I was on the phone with him for three hours last night. I tried to talk him out of it. We all did -- his dad (former big league catcher and manager Bob Boone) and his brother Aaron (the third baseman in Cleveland). We sort of ganged up on him, but he said his heart wasn't in it.

You always think you're never going to get hurt. When you do it's a shock. It's something you don't want to go through. So I feel blessed to be healthy again and even more so to be productive again.

We could just as easily have swept that series. We played that first game tough, we just came out on the short end. But we're excited. We feel like we've got a great team. I know a lot of people don't, but we do. Amongst ourselves, we think we're going to do a lot of things right this year.

I'd like to believe so. No one can ever say with certainty who's going to go to a World Series. But you have to come to the ballpark every day convinced you are going to win.

He was one of the best in the game. Look at his career numbers and he's right up there in some good company.

I think you owe it to someone as a friend to try and talk them out of something like that. But you have to listen to what they are saying. After a while, his feelings really came through. Eventually I had to agree with him that it was the right thing to do.

You try not to hope. Hope is not a good word. That's half the battle. You've got to believe you can win.

It's a loss. It's frustrating. No matter how close it is, it still goes into the loss column.

This is a pattern we need to break out of, and right now. Coming out of spring training we weren't looking at having a 7-13 kind of April. But it's the hand we've been dealt. We've got to battle out of it.

We believe in ourselves. We don't care what everybody else thinks.

We've been in most of these games in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Most of the pitchers we know are going to be with us have been OK. It's the kids who have been getting beat up late in games.

The truth is that this is the worst I've ever felt at the plate for this long a period of time.

I didn't have to drive a half hour to get to a batting cage. It wasn't such a chore to leave the family and go hit. I could go down there at 930 at night if I wanted. I just hit a lot more.

He didn't miss. Every time after an at-bat, you would go down the tunnel and watch on TV and he was putting the ball right where catcher Jason Kendall wanted it. You have to give him credit.

We're starting to make it happen.

I think it was the right one. I think if deep down inside, he didn't feel like he could be the player that he was. I wish him the best.

That's my job. That's why I was hired to come here, to drive in runs. I enjoy those situations. The guys did a good job to get on.

We should have won because they cheated. They kept moving up to the wrong tees. We played from the back tees.

He had velocity tonight more than I'd seen the last few times I'd faced him. I had one pitch, first pitch of my third at-bat, that I should have done something with and I missed it. Against Randy, you can't miss your pitch.

He just didn't miss. He was throwing strikes and hitting corners. There were a lot of three- and four-pitch at-bats.

I thought I got him pretty good, so that's what startled me. But the game's too long to blame on one play.

It's going to be a tough month, a tough first six weeks. But you've got to play these teams sometimes, and now is a good time to see where we're at. You can always catch fire.

I haven't done anything to hurt it, except play 150 games. I'll be back at first.

He's smart and he's got the ability to throw a pitch where he wants it. He's a student of the game. Guys who are younger should be hanging around his locker because he knows exactly what to do to every hitter.

We had our hands full today.

If not now, then when The time is perfect for a change, I think. I know I can do better than I've been doing. Right now my swing is in a bad place.

He was teary, but his heart just isn't in it anymore.

We do have a tough division. We have to play 54 games against the toughest pitchers in the league. Hopefully we can hit and pitch on the same day and win games.

It's unbelievable. He's been great. Every team has one or two guys who can stop those three- or four-game losing streaks. He's certainly that type of pitcher who can just stop a bad time.

The meat of our order still hasn't done anything and we're still winning games.

We've been struggling to get hits. But we've tried to stick with our game plan. We've been putting our struggle down to the fact we've run into good pitching.

He threw the ball well, man. He was hitting his spots, and he had his velocity back, too. Watching some of his starts, he's been in the low 90s, and today he stayed around 94 and 95.

I'm getting consistent at the plate. I'm starting to see teams for the second and third times. I'm settling in. I think it's working.