417 Quotes by Ned Yost

The harder you fight, the worse it makes it, and you end up getting pulled out and you drown,

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

We're a player short for a day or two because of Branyan. We thought it was more important to have an extra player on the bench. It's only for, what, five games because we're off Monday. And if we run into pitching problems we can always turn right around and bring someone up.

It's possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they're OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

To get six outs like that in that situation was every bit as big as anything else that happened.

Guys that get accelerated are the guys that go through that.

We didn't want to get too far away from our goals. We felt we had to have something go right.

You have to have that type of balance. You got a 25-man team and every man has to go out there and do his job. That's what happened in that (seventh) inning. Now, we've got talented, experienced veteran leadership in Carlos (Lee) and (Geoff) Jenkins, Ben Sheets. We've got the young kids learning and playing hard, too. It's a nice blend to have.

The hardest thing will be finding the clubhouse, because no one knows where they're going. But I think we'll manage that.