Vernon Wells Quotes (33 Quotes)

Guys come in here and have a good time. Guys are relaxed. Everybody has the same goal in mind -- to win. It hasn't happened the last few years, but I think this is a unique clubhouse, because everybody gets along, everybody likes each other. That makes for a fun year.

I don't know how the smell is. I don't want to kill the man.

I'm just changing the whole mental process of it. Just going up there and getting your concentration down at the beginning of March, hopefully, it will help.

Sometimes when pitchers make mistakes they get away with them, but tonight we put good swings on the ball. Going up against a pitcher like Boomer, you've got to score runs whenever you can get them.

It's amazing. It just comes at the times when you never know what can happen. Comebacks come in a heartbeat. That's the thing with this team -- a couple swings of the bat and good things happen.

Those guys proved themselves last year. They're the strong point of this team, we're going to lean on them all year. They're going to have their struggles, that's life, that's baseball. We'll stick with them and they'll come through for us more times than not, that's for sure.

When we're swinging the bats, as we are as a team, it allows everybody to have a good time. It allows us to pick up our pitchers when they're going bad. We need to pick up our pitchers because, most of the time, they're going to be there for us.

People are talking baseball again. The most important thing for us is to get off to a good start. You've got to earn this. No one's going to give us anything in this division. But I'm excited. This is a big year for me, and a big one for the team.

Of course it does. Obviously we don't know what the deal is with his elbow. Hopefully it's not as bad as some people may think. Hopefully it's just a little tender.

My leg feels pretty good right now. I'm looking forward to playing in the World Baseball Classic. Hopefully, my leg will co-operate and I'll get a chance to. First and foremost is the Blue Jays. I have to be healthy for the start of the season.

It's huge for the Jays Care Foundation. Obviously, I have first-hand experience with it and see the kids, how it touches them, and see what kids we're able to reach -- the smiles that it brings to their faces. It's great to see.

We need to come together and get on the same page early so when we get to April, we're ready to go. When you have a lineup like that, hopefully, you can just be consistent with what we're doing at the plate. With the arms we have on our staff, it makes for a nice combination.

It got ugly. J.T. was throwing the ball well and, defensively, we let him down today. They got the bats going and did what they needed to do to score their runs.

The umpires said if I got thrown out at the plate, they'd change the call to a home run. It hit the net and people were yelling, 'Three' so I'm like, 'I don't know what's going on. I'd better just keep running.' I was just as confused as everybody else.

It got ugly, obviously, that inning.

Patrol, it can be like just routine and then all of a sudden it can escalate to a life or death situation. The more African-Americans that come on the job and Latinos that come on the job, they'll be exposed to these life or death situations.

We're hitting line drive outs ... what we need is so string together some bloopers. The good thing is we went through this together, we'll come out of it together.

I don't think George Steinbrenner is too happy. I think he is ready to clean house and tell Brian to trade everybody and then fire him.

It's over with. You don't think about it anymore. Luckily, it's just the second game of the season. You live and you learn and we'll try to take the series tomorrow.

It was kind of a second-down play where you just don't want to get picked so I kind of threw it where no one could make a reception.

We see what those guys need to do to win in those situations and it's something we need to learn from, watch and absorb and hopefully when it's our turn, we can do the same thing.

I don't want to make an out. Everyone else is doing something.

It would be kind of cool to see a young team like Cleveland make it, they've come up through the system together, grown up together. It gives other teams hope.

He's got all the pitches to be one of the best in the game and I think he knows that. You can tell by his swagger. He's definitely not your average 19-year-old, that's for sure.

Gibby allows us just to go out and play the game. All he asks is that we play hard. He knows, being a former player, that you're going to struggle. For a manager to understand that and still stick with you, and let you get through it, it's huge, because you know he's behind you 100 percent.

He's already been here, unfortunately, and Toronto decided to trade him. Who says he's going to stay there You never know. ... I have two years left here, and things could change. I could be here for a lot longer.

I can't wear sunglasses when I hit. Now I don't have to worry about them. The contact lenses definitely look weird, but you get used to them. Going up to the box and squinting all the time, I wasn't a big fan of it.

Our rotation last year was suspect, to say the least. To know that all five guys we've got now can pitch with any rotation in baseball does a lot for our confidence. We don't have to score eight or nine runs to win a game.

This is the first time for a lot of us to go out and really have a chance to compete against the best. We've got a shot.

Griffey was the one person I was able to watch as a kid growing up. I didn't watch too much baseball, but if the Mariners were playing, the game was going to be on. ... He's the guy I tried to model my game after as much as possible.

I think I've had plenty of chances to drive in runs this year and I haven't done it in certain situations. I don't really consider myself a home run hitter. Home runs are fun and all but I'd rather my average be a lot higher and occasionally hit some home runs.

That's something we haven't been doing. We need to try to score first, ... When we score first, our record is pretty good. It gives our pitchers a chance to work with the lead, and that's what we were able to do today.

It's always been a goal of mine, no matter what my situation has been throughout the season. I'm shooting for it,