Willie Randolph Quotes (287 Quotes)

They love to see greatness.

It's only three games. But, I'm looking forward to our next road trip (San Diego, San Francisco and Atlanta). We're playing well and we have to continue to do that.

You kind of flinch a little bit, when you see can see that both of them have a bead on it. When the guys start laying out a little bit, leaning toward the ball, that's when you assume that maybe something nasty could happen. Very scary.

The Art of War' is one of my favorite books. To me, it's all about winning. When you go into competition, there is an art to it. There is a way to do it if you want to be the best.

I still feel in my heart and my gut that it was the right thing to do,

All along I felt he would be fine. I didn't want to push the panic button because I speak to him every day and know how he feels. I had no doubt. It was just good to see him out there and getting his work in. He got through with flying colors, which is go

We make it hard for ourselves sometimes, ... and we go to the heartbreak hotel a little too much.

We just need to get a win so we can turn around in the right direction. The energy right now is just not there because of the fact that we're losing like we are. ... We have plenty of time to start to get things going again. We might win 15 in a row.

The only thing that's bad about the injury is you've got to get your timing back. He can't swing a bat.

We're going to let Pedro pretty much dictate when he's ready to get on the mound or do whatever he wants to do. We're going to let him take his time. He's a veteran. He knows what he needs to do. We don't need to put any schedules on him because that can always change.

We could do a lot of different things. It's not fair to speculate right after the game, when you've got time to think what your options are.

I saw him pitch lights out many times against the Yankees. He's always been a little up and down. He really, at times, would come in and shut the door.

There was a little tightness last night and I guess he wanted to nip it in the bud right away. I think he just wanted to have peace of mind to have someone look at it.

You go through the first loop and you make a few adjustments so it's accommodating in some ways to players and getting their work in. Last year I wanted to set the tone with a hard workout and get guys' attention, and get guys working and to understand that's what we're here for.

It feels great. Are you kidding me It feels awesome, man. We just like to keep playing and build on the house money. Keep building.

Time is dwindling down, ... We can use a jolt right now.

I think he has the skills to do it, and if he works hard over the winter and next spring, he could be adequate enough to play the position. There are a lot of second basemen that don't turn the double play that well.

I like what I've seen from him all spring, actually. He threw the ball well today, and I like the way he carries himself. If he continues to pitch well, he obviously has a chance.

You have to have a lot of self-confidence to get by in New York. If you have faith in your ability as a player or the decisions you make as a manager, you can do well. But if there are any cracks, they come out, because everything is magnified.

He's a big guy, and there's a lot of moving parts. Hopefully, it can translate into something more consistent.

He's gotten some big hits for us. He's strong and he's got those big, strong hands and if he throws them on you he can make something happen.

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played for a month, but I don't think we done anything yet. And one more victory wasn't going to change that.

Even if you give up runs, you still need to just keep fighting and grinding and believing in yourself and I hope that's the case with him.

You know he's going to do something special, ... but because we haven't won a lot of his games, we kind of lose that. I've said it about Roger Clemens When you have a great pitcher like that, it's not always automatic.

It was ugly, ... It's not the way you've got to do things to get back and stay in things.

If you're physically fit and take care of yourself, you should be better later in your career. I had my best year before I retired.

He never voiced any concern about being here or playing here,

That's the toughest thing for a young player to learn, and at the major-league level he has to be able to do it consistently. It's tougher to turn the double play at second than at shortstop because your back is to the runner. You have to have a lot of heart, nerve and confidence.

There's nothing wrong with his arm. It's probably a combination of a lot of things, and the fact that over the last two years he's thrown a lot of innings. It's nothing serious to the point where you have to worry about anything. It's just a matter of when you have an investment like him, you want to make sure you don't run the risk.

I think he looks totally different than he was last year. He's looser and freer, and the ball is coming out of his hand real well.

I trust David, he's obviously an excellent hitter, but consistency is what I'm looking for. He needs to show me he can keep making the adjustments.

Right now, we just have to wait and see. But it doesn't look too good.

I've coached third base for 10 years and I don't second-guess my third-base coach, ... It was a tough decision. I didn't tell him to tell him to go. You have to ask the guy that sent him.

We're just going through the process of learning how to play winning baseball. The bottom line is that we're learning the hard way.

This is how we're going to win most of our games this year. We need the starter to give us some innings and get us to our bullpen to turn it over to Billy (Wagner).

We felt like giving (Cabrera) a different twist. A guy with a little funk might be able to get him off guard. ... I felt like he would give Cabrera a different look because he hadn't faced him before.

I beat hitting coach Rick Down. Cliff was pretty good and Chris had a nice jump shot. But I beat one of my coaches, so I guess I can brag about that.

We might win 15 games in a row.

You have to have that every year, especially in this town. That's a nice slogan to adopt.

That was good to see, ... It was just one time, but hopefully that shows him he can get up in there.

I hope so, ... That's encouraging. That's good. We can use him.

That was something that I usually like to do periodically, but today was a perfect time to do it. I always like to let guys know where I'm coming from and what I expect. It worked out good, because if we were on the field, we probably wouldn't have had it.

The thing you like about him is he's very comfortable and very poised in the field. Yeah, he didn't play second today, but that's impressive to me.

It doesn't make sense to give a young kid like Hernandez an old man's spot like that this early.

Victor was fine tonight. Last year, he was good for us for a little stretch. I'm hoping he'll get back to that again. I have a lot of confidence in Victor Zambrano.

Bannister still has to make this club. He still has to continue to pitch well.

I just wanted to give Cabrera a different look.

We'll know where we are by the end of this trip and then we'll still have to go home and finish strong. A lot can happen, but the way the schedule sets up, regardless of how this trip finishes up, we still have a lot of baseball to play.

It's just a matter of going through the pains of learning how to play winning baseball, ... That's really what it boils down to.