Troy Glaus Quotes (14 Quotes)


    Batting fourth comes with some expectations. I'm a perfectionist, I expect perfection out of myself and when it doesn't happen, I get frustrated with it.

    Teddy pitched great. He started off a little but slow, but he found his comfort zone and pitched 7 23 good strong innings for us, kept us in there, gave us a chance to battle back.

    With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

    Nobody would have said one word otherwise if he would have stayed with his wife and daughter one more day. But he wanted to come back and play, and he obviously contributed in a very big way.

    Different managers have different theories on that and so far (Jays manager John Gibbons) has been aggressive on that, which I like. I'm not one to give strikes away.


    You don't hit (Johnson), you try to find a mistake. You have to get in there and constantly battle against him.

    Nobody would have said a word if he'd stayed one more day with his wife and daughter, ... But he wanted to come back, and he contributed in a big way.

    A year ago, it would have been a lot different. But I saw all their moves go by on the ticker. That made the decision pretty easy.

    This team is not one that's going to roll over and go away. We're going to scratch, we're going to claw, we're going to put good at-bats together, try to get a couple of runs here and there, bite into the deficit a little bit and punch ahead. Tonight it worked out.

    I'm just trying to hit it, that's it. I was told a long time ago when I first came up, we're producers, not directors. All you can do is hit it, you can't control where it goes and if it happens to go somewhere, fine.

    You can't control Mother Nature, but the conditions were unsafe in the top of the fifth inning. Obviously, that team was probably more dangerous since they were playing defense. However, nobody should've been on the field. And it's frustrating on top of all this that we end up getting a loss. That just doesn't sit well.

    If you look at the roster, this is a team I believe will be competitive and be competitive for a long time.

    Once I got that alleviated in my mind and I looked at the roster, the decision became fairly easy. This team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very talented.

    Obviously, nobody probably would have said one word otherwise, if he had stayed with his wife and daughters one more day. But he wanted to come back and play, and he did, and obviously contributed in a very very big way.


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