Conor Jackson Quotations

Last year I wasn't comfortable when I got put into that situation. I had been comfortable wherever I'd gone until then.

I rushed it a little bit. I couldn't get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. We had talked about it right before that if it was a ball to me, I was going home no matter what. If he was staying I wasn't going to turn two. I knew I was going home the whole way, I just couldn't get it quick enough.

Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.

With the bases loaded and one out, I wanted to stay out of the double play. He got something up in the zone, and I took advantage of it.

I still don't feel 100 percent comfortable up there (at the plate), either. But when I do, I'll know it and I'll tell you.

I should have caught it. It was one of those plays where I knew it was going to take me off and I knew it was going to be a tag play, and I just got crossed up a little bit and kind of rushed it.

I've still got a ways to go, but it's a learning experience. You're going to be put into situations you've never been put in before and you learn from them.

This is really good. It gets the monkey off my back.

It's just one of those things. They've all been on different pitches.

It's the last thing I'm worried about. Even if it doesn't come, there are a lot more ways to score runs than hitting home runs. As long as you get big hits in big situations it doesn't matter whether it's a long ball or not.

It's made me work a little bit harder because I want to stay on this time. I want to play every day. Last year I really didn't prove I could.

I'm not going to go up there and swing at the pitches (the pitcher) wants me to. I'm going to go up there and swing at my pitches. When I get to two strikes, I'm looking for something close to the plate. Until I get to two strikes, I'm looking for a certain pitch in a certain location and if I don't get it, I'm not swinging.

I'm just going to keep it simple, and keep the game plan I got here with.

I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so because I was swinging at bad pitches. That was when I really started drawing walks.

I had a lot of friends and family here. It's nice to get a couple of hits.

I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn't get a good grip on it. It's one play, and I'm not really going to let it get to me.

I just feel better and a little more comfortable. I got my feet wet last year.