83 Quotes by Nomar Garciaparra

Just get a ball I can drive and get it up in the air. If you get the ball in the air, you get a guy in. If not, worse-case scenario, you've got a guy in Bill Mueller who will give you a good at-bat.

That ball in center field was tough to catch. I didn't see where it was going. Things like that happen.

I wish I was playing all year, that's for sure. I had an injury, I'm glad I came back, glad I'm playing the way I'm capable of playing.

It didn't change him at all. That didn't surprise me. He's a such a great person, a great manager. Something like that - he wasn't going to let it change who he is.

Those two games down there definitely helped. It was good to go out there, because you have to test it in a game situation. When you get into this environment, you can't simulate the game. And if I test it here and have a setback, that kind of hurts the team as well. So I didn't want to do that. It's not 100 percent, but I didn't expect it to be.

What happened is part of the game. I'm not going to sulk about it. I'm glad to be playing the game that I love.

You go out there and play hard and make plays. That's what this team is about.

Every position is important and has its differences. It takes time to reach the same instinct level at first base that I had shortstop. It is a work in progress, but I'm getting there.

At third, that's still a work in progress. That's what's great, every day I get to work at third, work at hitting, I've got to do everything.