37 Quotes by Paul Konerko

We've kind of turned it around a little bit. We know it's in the driver's seat, and it's there for the taking as long as we just do our job. We don't have to really look at the scoreboard, but it's always nice if you get some help. But we know we can do it on our own, as well.

We were just beaten in every aspect of the game. We were just pounded.

We busted out. We knocked them out. It's finally good to have a game like that where you could breathe the last couple of innings.

You have to resist the urge to think that way. It's hard to do, block that stuff out, but it's something we have to do.

At this point of season in 2000, we had so many pitchers who were injured, so we had so many question marks going into the postseason, ... This year we've been lucky and haven't had too many injuries. Our pitching has been there all year. We have no reason to believe it won't be come playoff time. We do feel good about our pitching.

There's no question we're a better team, I think, having gone through all the struggles.

They tied the game up in the ninth, which wasn't due to anything Bobby did bad. They hit some good pitches. It's like playing ourselves out there. They have a lot of heart, they don't go away.

That's been the pattern all year, ... No matter how many runs we have, whether it's one or eight or nine, we never have a run we didn't need. At this point of the season, it doesn't matter how we won, it just matters we did it.

I'm going to have a good view from the on-deck circle.