253 Quotes by Tony Russa

Look at the runs he gave up, they were two breaking balls over the plate, ... He made a couple of breaking ball mistakes and that's two extra runs.

That's the difference in the game. We fell behind by two and then we battled back, did a real good job of scoring the two, and then we had a chance for more. We got the two to tie it and we got a lot of momentum going.

Matt Morris is part of our postseason rotation. He was never out of it.

It's something he should have. It's totally different from his cutter and his fastball,

It feels good to win two games, especially since they out-hit us in all three.

Eckstein is playing so well, it's almost in the category of, what's new?

I think physically he feels good and I think the pressure of the postseason has got his concentration back to where it was a great, great majority of the season.

The best way to keep yourself competitive is not to change anything. Right now we're trying to grind out wins and win the division.

I think my first understanding of the significance of Gibson's home run is the drama of what he did that day, as hurt as he was, that being his only at-bat. And if you saw him foul those pitches off and how gimpy he was, it was an incredibly heroic kind of at-bat, if you can use hero in sports,