70 Quotes by Brian Giles

When the competition is great, you kind of feed off that. Definitely with Barry and Moises (Alou) and the professionals they have, you have to get up for them. If not, they're going to knock you around the park.

We haven't gotten to see a full season from Khalil Greene. I'm curious to see what kind of numbers he would throw up if he is healthy for a full season. He's got some of the quickest hands you'll see as a hitter and on defense he has some of the softest hands.

We pitched extremely well throughout this trip. We had one bad start; that's about it.

Why don't you ask him if it'll be special to play next to me?

When you haven't been a free agent, it's intriguing, a new experience. It's not something I've been through before. I've always had a contract.

We've just played inconsistent baseball lately. We have to create more scoring opportunities for ourselves.

This was a really big game for us. I was just glad coach (Ben Waddle) gave me the ball and let me throw. I just let my defense do the work.

You hit one of their big guys, they're going to go after one of our guys. It's kind of an unwritten rule in baseball. Obviously, you don't want to get hit, but we've been able to put up big innings both times it's happened.

We've put pressure on that team, we just haven't come up with the big hit yet. We're playing for our lives now.