16 Quotes by Placido Polanco

If you're counting on home runs to win games, you're in bad shape. Home runs are not going to come every day. Home runs just happen. You get good at-bats, you put good swings on the ball. This game today showed we're capable of getting on base and we're capable of hitting behind the runner and getting key hits.

If you're counting on home runs to win games every day, you're in bad shape. Home runs don't come every day.

Being a manager is tough because you can only make decisions, but you can't do anything more,

I don't know how ready he was. Even during the season, sometimes you miss it. But sometimes you crush it. I'm pretty sure Ortiz thought that was a good pitch to hit.

If I didn't think they have a chance to be good, I wouldn't have signed here.

He probably knew I was going to throw it like that, because I knew the bag is there. I have to throw it to the bag. But in this case, he knew I was probably going to do it. The more you play with a guy, the more you get to know each other and better you can get.

All I tried to do was make the routine plays and get on base for the big guys.