Todd Walker Quotes (21 Quotes)

With Wood and Prior in there, we'd be pretty tough. But I have been very impressed with Sean Marshall and Angel Guzman. You don't know what to expect. They may be great.

He was the type of player that every one of us wanted to be like. We're really gonna miss him.

You guys have done nothing wrong. If I stumble over something I say, I want to make sure I correct it. The front office has been great to me. I read the comments this morning, and it's something that I never intended. We have a good relationship.

I'm convinced Walker can grow a full beard during a nine-inning game. If I go 0-for-5, I'll shave and start over, ... Other than that, it's just being lazy.

Yesterday I did. I want my name to be in the paper because I hit two homers and I went 4-for-4, not because of any other reason. I understand that this whole second base thing is a controversy. That's fine. I want you to understand that if I'm on the bench and somebody else is playing, I'm going to be pulling for him. I'm not going to be talking bad about anybody. I love my teammates, I love this team.

I don't think it's a seller's market. I think you wait to see how the rest of this month goes. You cruise into September and you have a better idea. You don't go off selling people now or you are quitting right now. Now is not the time.

I like first. It's relaxing for me. Up the middle is pretty tense. At first, you're fighting complacency.

It was an out in any other circumstance, ... David Weathers is a good pitcher. I was lucky to get the ball in play.

I love it here. I really got to see a different side of it yesterday. Going to the hospital and watching on TV, you see the other stuff that goes into the games. It made me realize why I love the Cubs as much as I do and why I want to play here.

Do you know something I don't You're throwing things out at me that are out of left field. You don't think about that stuff. You think about things you can control.

They're just passionate about it. Their parents and their parents' parents probably were big Cubs fans and Red Sox fans. It's just carried down through the generations.

You're trying to get that golf swing going and trying to get it up in the air, ... Weathers threw a pretty nasty pitch the first strike. He probably hung that slider and I missed it, and 0-2 you're just battling. He threw a close one in on me. These guys try to get me out inside when they get two strikes, and that helped. I know that.

Carlos Lee is a friend of mine but he did come in awfully high on the knee. The picture I saw on the Web site looks like some kind of tae kwon do move he was putting on me.

I can only speak for myself, ... but if people are paying to come out and watch, then you owe them the best you have. That's the way I look at it, and that's what I'm going to do.

Relax, that's the main thing. When you're trying to do so well every time you get in there, it's hard to do. The main thing is relax. I sat for two days and then got the first start here on Friday. You have to try not to do too much when you get in there.

When it comes down to who's playing second, it's going to be their own opinion. I can't put words in anybody's mouth. It's whatever they want. I just have to make it tough on them, to do the best I can this month.

I just have to make it tough on them.

If you're afraid of a little competition, you should go back and play softball somewhere. I'm all about it. And in the end, if Jerry's out there, I'm going to pull for him.

We don't have the luxury of feeling sorry for ourselves. We have to play 120 percent, which is what we do every single game. In this business, you have to keep rolling. Nobody feels sorry for you.

If I were to get traded tomorrow, I think the team is responsible for my rent in Chicago for six months. That's why I tried to get the rent as high as possible, so if that happened they would have to think twice about it.

Jim has always been good in that if something's about to happen, he'll call and talk to you. I haven't heard anything. There aren't too many teams I want to play for. This team has a chance to win, number one, and it's also a fun team to play for.