61 Quotes by Terry Francona

When you get down to your last game, you can have a bullpen full of everybody. You can't do that right now. We need somebody to make these starts. While they're still starting, they need to start. Once we get past each guy's start, you may see various guys going out of that bullpen as soon as they're available. That's a definite.

We won. I'm sure they'd rather play at home, ... In the end it doesn't matter. You need to win wherever you play. If that gets in the way, you're not good enough.

We won 95 games in a season where things didn't go right. I'm not going to apologize for that.

We signed him because he's one of the best pitchers in the league. Now we're close to having that guy back.

Don't get me wrong: These people love the Patriots. But they wake up and want to know what happened to the Red Sox. I mean, they really care. It's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. It's part of what's so good. But I'm right smack in the middle of it, and it gives me a headache sometimes. I know what it means to these people. I just want to do what's right for our team. I love living through this with them.

There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position where one slip-up and we lose. We actually put ourselves in a position where we could win in the eighth and we didn't.

Is it going to happen? It might not happen, but we're trying to cover every base we can.

After all these games we've played, we've played ourselves into a situation where it comes down to two games. That's just the way it is.

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.