Dmitri Young Quotations

When we have our cylinders going, we can hit with anybody.

With the players we have, we've got a (coaching) staff that's going to be able to take us to the next level.

With the players that we have, we've got a staff that's able to take us to the next level. The final answer is what the manager's going to say. There's not going to be any other influences. We know that Jimmy Leyland is the captain of this ship.

Basically, we didn't get the best out of ourselves,

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

He has a presence. What he says goes.

He lost the passion for the game. You can't really fault a guy for that, because that happens. And he was smart enough to say the money didn't matter to him. It was his own personal happiness.

He's a standup man's man, and he's one of those guys you don't want to cross. He gives us direction, and that's all we really lacked.

There are obvious reasons why I didn't say anything,

Look at the '99 Reds. I wasn't exactly God's gift to hair bleach. You have to go through an ugly stage before you get to the cute stage. Right now, he's dead smack in the ugly stage.

It didn't feel good at all, ... Luckily there's no tear but I still have everything right here (points to back of left hamstring). It hasn't gotten any better and it's a little bit colder out here now, a little bit harder to prepare.

I wasn't out there, and I'm a nuisance. I think everybody knows that. In fact, (Leyland) had to calm us down from walking up on the home runs. You can see how it changed from being nice guys to we do have attitudes. There's a lot of attitudes.

We battled the White Sox three straight games and came up on the losing end. As for the Indians, they're always a good team. It was good for us to get this win tonight, especially for Mr. Rogers.

The reason Pokey got out of the game, it was quite noble. But because it wasn't put out there, he's made to look like he just turned his back on the game, which definitely wasn't the case.

Unbelievable, ... It was one of those trades like, 'Who knew?' Guys in the National League knew what he could do.

We didn't make offensive changes. Pitching-wise, you bring in a legitimate front-line pitcher in Kenny Rogers and we got back one of our own from the beginning, Todd Jones, and more importantly, with the players that we had, we've got a staff that's going to be able to take us to the next level.

Bruce is one great baseball mind. During the year, I went to him a lot for advice. Bruce was relied upon by a lot of players on the team. If there's anyone I don't want to see go, it's Bruce Fields.

Some people have got to assume more accountability,

Some people might think this or that. I'm his friend. I'm going to support whatever he does. I want him to be happy, if that means not coming out. If he lost his passion for the game, he's not going to hold somebody else up.

As a player, especially me, I feel like I failed the manager, ... Unfortunately, he has to be the fall guy. If we were 91-71, he'd be voted Manager of the Year.

That's just love coming out. He's just happy to be on the baseball field. He's been out long enough. For him to take this gig -- he didn't have to -- that shows his love for the game. When the love of the game calls you, you're going to find a way to get back into it.

They said they were building the lineup around me, so they wanted to keep me in the mix. We have some genuine, authentic, actual ballplayers.

There's a little lingering pain. You have to understand, it came off the bat of (coach) Lance Parrish.

It's bad. I'm no doctor but it hurts. The severity I'm not quite sure but it hurts. I couldn't really hear with the crowd but I thought I felt a pop.

It's a double-edged sword. It's good attention for him and for the team. On the other hand, it takes up a lot of your time.

It's unfortunate, because he's a Tigers legend, ... and the same people that revere his jersey growing up are talking mad trash. It was ridiculous. We do badly as a team. People who were yelling bad things to Tram weren't yelling bad things to him during the '84 World Series, were they?

It's not getting any better, and as cold as it was tonight, it just wouldn't get loose.

Take care of it now, it's early. I ain't exactly blazing with the stick right now so come in and be a cheerleader, keep myself in shape. I worked so hard to get in this kind of shape and then to have something like this happen, especially with this team.

They can burst their confidence (with him) and send him down, or they can challenge the kid and see what they really have.

I'm 32 now. It's not like 26, 27 and have room for error.

I'm no doctor, but it hurts. I'm going to take care of it now, while it is early. I'm not exactly blazing with the stick right now.

I put up great numbers, better than a lot of players who got called up around the majors. A lot of them were on contending teams, ... Tampa's going nowhere this year, so they could at least call up the guys who are going to be there in the future.

I could care less what they question, ... They're not walking around on this leg.