40 Quotes by Mark Sweeney

I think that's what's become the disappointment for us, the way we've been playing, because we've brought the other teams back into the mix as opposed to pushing ourselves away.

Steve Finley, having him as a fourth outfielder is a luxury that a lot of teams don't have. Obviously he's not a fourth outfielder but that's what you have to pencil him in as.

That's the thing we focus on as teammates in the dugout. We're amazed that he can channel that out as well as he does. At times, it can get real vicious. I wouldn't want to trade places with him, I can tell you that.

We have some special 40-year-olds here. We don't have the normal 40-year-olds that can't run around.

We hang in there. It hasn't always been fun. It hasn't always been pretty. But we've answered every challenge. We stayed on top. We deserve to be division champions.

We don't look at it as struggle. We look at it as a victory. We won the West. That was our first job. The next goal is to win the next one.

We are winning the one-run ball games and especially the close games in the ninth inning and that's a boost. However, we need to learn how to hold leads a little bit better and make it easier for ourselves.

It was up in the air whether Barry would do this. We asked him this morning. It was almost embarrassing to have him do it.

Seeing Paul go is a really tough loss for us. It's tough to take because of the person and teammate he has been.