41 Quotes by Raul Ibanez

Our pattern has been to succeed as a group or not succeed as a group, but you hope that's not a pattern for the whole season. We believe in ourselves as an offense, and I don't think we lost that belief over the past few games.

Part of our game is being patient. You work the count, a lot of things can happen.

Our offense has a nice pace, a nice feel right now. We're being aggressive when we have to, being patient when we have to. Good balance up and down the lineup, good approaches at the plate.

I was excited. He's really good, and he's been around a lot of great hitters.

It doesn't feel like we're swinging the bat a whole lot better against right-handers. We're not swinging the bats well collectively.

That was awesome. That was really cool, getting to meet one of the great power pitchers in the history of the game.

That was an emotional one. He (Betancourt) was down 0-2 and battled his tail off. Willie's stolen base was unbelievable. He's as good as I've ever played with.

I wasn't going to let him go back there, no way.

We needed that. That was a big game for us. With the way things have been going, the way tonight had gone, we had to have it. We had to scratch and claw, but we got it.