94 Quotes by Jason Varitek

Some of this stuff can help to drive you. But the bottom line is, we need to go after them. Go. Go play the game.

I think our pitching has gotten stronger in the last two weeks. We still have to continue to be better, but we added some depth in our bullpen.

I think he's been working his way to health and strength and being a pitcher again. He had a major injury he had repaired this offseason. He's real close. If he throws the ball like he did today, it gives us an opportunity to win a lot of games.

I think he did have to battle with it.

I think his personality in the clubhouse and his ability to communicate with the pitchers will be good. That's not taking anything away from Josh. Josh brought a ton of communication with the pitchers and he did an excellent job with that, communicating back and forth. I know Dougie really well. He's a very good friend a great teammate.

I thought it was a very, very good outing. Maybe I saw something different than he felt. But I thought it was definitely a very good start for Curt. Today for me was definitely a step up. We just didn't get it done offensively.

Manny's a good teammate. Different people have different things going on. He knows how to prepare himself. If he's not prepared and he's not able to do things, then you can question him.

That's the way this team works. We do the hard things first.

We haven't scored runs, that's the bigger issue.