464 Quotes by John Gibbons

Obviously, it's a great thing to honor your country and to get that type of experience on such a big stage, but we're a little bit selfish in wanting those guys back as soon as possible. With so many new faces in camp this year, ideally you'd like to have all of them around as much as possible to establish chemistry and continuity in your lineup. But it's a great experience for Vernon, who's getting the most playing time of anyone.

We were raving about him two months ago.

Pete came in and held the fort down and did a great job.

He pitched some good games in August, too, and didn't get a decision. But that's good. That's No. 12, and it was a long time coming.

We hit some balls hard right at guys today. That's baseball, we also benefit from that, too.

It's in the same area he had the problem last year. He only threw a few pitches and we shut him down.

He's pitched three days in a row so he won't be in there.

Plenty of visitors not only came to see them on their first day out, but they've returned on a weekly or monthly basis to visit the three cubs.

We expected to have a better team than we've had here in a while. The key is to play to good against the teams you're going to compete with all year because there's been optimism built up, expectations and you want to keep that going. You don't want to come out of the gate slow and let the teams you're trying to overtake in your division beat your brains in cause then everybody's like where's the progress?