Russ Adams Quotes (23 Quotes)

It was good fun at our expense. We thought that after the plane flew by that that was it. But they have the funds to do more than that. I mean they even had wedding invitations, a D.J., someone to videotape it, flowers, even gifts. It was great.

He's got good stuff. You can see his confidence is rising. It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling and we couldn't do much against him.

I don't know if I'm working harder, I'm just trying to get my work in each day. I think it's important in the spring to focus more on work than trying to prepare for the games. Getting your legs in good shape and making sure that you're ready to go when opening day comes is really important. Working hard down here is the only way that you can achieve that.

Against Cleveland we hit a lot of balls hard on Sunday. Every time we did, it was right at them.

As a group, we have to find ways to get guys on base and make something happen. You have to force the issue, whether it's dropping a bunt, working a long at-bat or getting a walk or something like that just to break the pitcher's rhythm.

The last thing I want to do is look at my numbers and worry about that. I want to put together good at-bats each night. That's the one thing I can do to help my numbers out.

We thought the fly-by was it.

I think having him around has been a big plus for us, because he knows what he's talking about and he's fun to listen to. It's good to have him here. Taking groundballs with him and seeing how he goes about his business, then getting to chat with him. It does nothing but help us as young players.

But he made it a little farther this time, so he's getting closer. It's just about the toughest thing you can do in sport. It's like making the Final Four - or the World Series.

I was just tired of messing with my hair.

It's tough to have Dave go out there and throw the way he threw and not produce for him. It seems like we've struggled with that for the past week or so. Hopefully, we can climb out of it, any way we can.

I just struggled the whole night against Kazmir and was finally able to put the ball in play. It's good to be able to get Bush a win.

He (Kazmir) has good stuff. You can see when his confidence is rising. He's not afraid to throw the off-speed. It was good to get him off the mound. He was rolling.

Sixty or 70 at-bats is no time to reach for the panic button, because this is a game of cycles.

This camp I'm figuring out what makes you click and maybe changing some things that I did last year that maybe wore me out or work on something that I didn't do last year that I can do to help myself improve. It's all part of the learning process of figuring out what suits you best and what gets you ready to play at your best.

It was almost a mirror image of last week's game when they matched up. Last week they got the win and tonight we were able to scratch out a win for Bush. To pitch the way he pitched in both the last two games he definitely didn't deserve to get two losses for it. It feels good to give him the win and good for our club.

The batting order will take care of itself in spring training.

I think this is the type of off-season that they were looking to have. I think that they hit it right on the nose as far as what they were looking to do. You got your own expectations for yourself as well and when you make those kind of moves and when the organization makes that commitment to try and make your team a lot better, you've got to kind of take that pressure and run with it.

We've got a big middle of the order now. It stretches out a little farther than it did last year.

The feeling I had was that he had gotten cold feet. The tenor of all the changes was to write out all of the strings attached... It was like, 'give me 150,000, no strings attached.' But that money is coming from the state.

Boston has the bats going, but the wild card, I have no idea.

We had to go through the Toronto airport and wear our dresses to The Plaza, ... People were laughing. I'm sure they had an idea of what was going on.

Tonight's game was almost a mirror image of last week's game (when Tampa's Derek Lee hit a two-run homer off Batista in the ninth to give the D-Rays a 3-2 victory),