27 Quotes by Jay Payton

We were contagiously all bad at the same time, now we're contagiously all swinging the bats pretty good. Baseball's a funny game. You can't figure it out. When it's good, you just try to enjoy it as long as you can.

I didn't want to go headfirst because I'm thinking, if he goes feet-first, then I get spiked. I guess he wasn't really thinking about that too much because he went in headfirst. I thought I might have broken his arm or something at first, but he was OK.

I didn't have anybody to throw to, so I had to take off for second. I was just trying to cut him off and slide in front of the bag,

I expect a lot of at bats and a lot of work. I know that play will dictate how many at bats I will get.

I was just trying to cut him off. I didn't want to go head first because if he goes feet first, I get spiked or cleated in the head. I thought I broke his arm at first. I'm glad he's OK. I felt bad for him. I cleated him pretty good.

Our problem down the stretch was not being able to take advantage of our opportunities. That's pretty much why we are where we are.

That's been our problem pretty much down the stretch. We haven't been able to capitalize on opportunities. That's why we're five games back instead of even, because we're not swinging the bats a little better.

We get two hits one night and nine runs the next. If someone can come up with a magic formula on why that happens, he could make millions. That's just baseball.

Those are the last two guys in the world you want to face with a runner at third and one out in a tie game. Nine times out of 10, they're gonna get the run in.