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If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

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I think the way our team is playing right now anybody could hit that home run, ... We're so selfless right now it's not like one guy is getting that hit, it's like every single guy is swinging all at once. We're not focusing on individual stuff. We're just looking at the scoreboard and trying to put up runs.

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We busted out. We knocked them out. It's finally good to have a game like that where you could breathe the last couple of innings.

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It's nothing we haven't seen all year, it's the reason we are here, ... There is a healthy competition among the guys to try to outdo each other. ... All five of our starters at one point or another have been aces. Gar, we hopped on his back tonight and rode him.

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It all starts with the pitching for us. Some teams feed off their offense. Our team, we feed off our pitching, there's no doubt about that.

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It's just a very good piece of software if you're a hitter. It shows you where you're at, but shows you where your swing is in comparison to where other hitters are.

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Ozzie wanted to try to put his stamp on the team with some speed and more defense, and the overall attitude. There were no guarantees it would work. I didn't know if we were going to win, but I knew we weren't going to lose the same way.

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It's what Ozzie said from Day 1 of spring training 'You come to play every day. Whatever it is you do, do it the same way every day, ... 'I don't care what you did the day before, good or bad or what the team did the day before, good or bad. You do the same every day.' And guys latched on to it, and it's worked.

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They tied the game up in the ninth, which wasn't due to anything Bobby did bad. They hit some good pitches. It's like playing ourselves out there. They have a lot of heart, they don't go away.

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First things first we have to make the playoffs.

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I was trying to resist the urge to think he was going to walk me. Home runs happen when you least expect it, and that was definitely the case here.

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The energy was good today early. I knew we'd be in the game. I hope guys realize that we can't wait for good things to happen and then have energy. You've got to come with it first, and then good things follow.

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He's probably got the most heart of any pitcher I've ever been around. That's the story of the night for me. Bases loaded, no outs against the best offense in the major leagues and he comes out of it.

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We didn't want to give the ball to Curt Schilling for Game 4. We've seen his act.

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It's such a fine and delicate thing. This team is no powerhouse. We don't rank up there with the greatest teams to win this trophy. We don't have a single player you could say is the best at his position during the time he played. But we fight as hard as any team that ever played.

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When you're coming into a situation where you don't know the players, doing what he did is definitely something that will get you off on the right foot with people. Most of us had heard about what a nice guy Jermaine was, but it definitely didn't hurt him coming into a new camp where everyone knew, 'Hey, this guy could have taken more money to play elsewhere, but he wanted to be here.

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On paper, it looks really good. But we still have to win our division, and then take out chances in the playoffs. If there's one thing I like, it's the pitching staff. I think that was the key for us last season. We have the potential to score more runs this year, especially with a proven guy like Jim (Thome) in the lineup. But with our pitching, they're not going to need a lot of help on most nights.

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He's a real knowledgeable guy. Both he and Walker have the same philosophy on hitting.

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All year we had to listen to people out there ... telling us we didn't have the team to do this. I'm trying to think in my mind what would make people think we're a good team. The only thing I could come up with is, maybe we will have to do this one more time next year.

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He said before the game that he was going to hit a homer tonight. But he says that before a lot of games.

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It really didn't feel that great. Home runs happen when you least expect them.

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When we came in after it was tied, no one was down. I think the overall kind of theme in the dugout was, everybody loves Bobby, we're not going to let him go home feeling bad about this. We're going to pick him up and we're not going to let this happen. We're going to get this win.

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I guess I will have to work on my leadership skills.

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He just tries to hit home with the family thing and how we handle ourselves as a group. All stuff not related to baseball, just how we interact with people. If you get all that stuff straight, you'll get the most out of your talent.

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I don't know what happened. It hit right there in the chest, took a sharp right turn. Not since the JFK assassination has a bullet or ball done something like that. I had no idea it was up my shirt. I thought it just rolled up my chest until I grabbed it through the fabric.

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