18 Quotes by Jim Lefebvre

What he's going to do (in the WBC) is show a lot of people that he can compete at a very high level and elevate everyone's opinion of the baseball talent in China. When he's hitting well, he is a fun guy to watch.

He has tremendous speed and surprising power for a little guy. I've seen him hit a ball over the first-base bag, then hit one over the third-base bag, and then hit a home run.

He is the kind of kid other players respect. He's just a good guy and a good player.

I think that nerves were a factor today. This was a big game for us.

I think our players were a little nervous today. But dealing with pressure is part of being a professional.

We just want to play the game hard and play the game right. The important thing is we are setting our sights on getting better and better.

We didn't do much offensively tonight. We didn't swing the bat well. We didn't make a lot of hard outs. We have to do better than that.

Uehara is an outstanding pitcher. Our goal is to make him throw the ball over the plate, wait for a mistake and hit it.

The only thing I can say is that we're a lot better than we played tonight. It wasn't that we were tired or because of travel. We just played an ugly game tonight, period.