Alex Rodriguez Good Quotations

He only performed for about 40 minutes. It could have been longer, but it was still a good performance.

We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.

I thought I had a good approach against Huston.

It's frustrating because you see how devastating he can be. You talk to guys on other teams and they marvel at how good his stuff is. When he puts it together, he's going to be a force for us.

Our state of mind right now is that we're feeling good about where we are going. We're playing with a lot of urgency right now. We're playing with a lot of grit.

It's nice to get your hits, but at the same time, it's more important to get good at-bats. Get good tracking and really get yourself prepared for opening day.

These are the games we need to win. Good pitching, good defense and a great bullpen from Farnsworth and Mo.

I don't want to talk about it, so many good things happened tonight. It feels like I got stung pretty good.

Friday was a demoralizing loss. To get two wins going into the off-day and a tough Tampa series, it's good for our psyche.

He throws his entire body at you with 96- to 97-mph speed. We took some good swings at him. But he has good stuff. You tip your cap to him.

You figured it out, didn't you? Pretty good for a writer.

He needed it, the team needed it. It was a shot in the arm to get a good pitching performance.

It was freezing. The first night we were snowed out so we had to wait until the second night to open. Being from Miami, I couldn't believe how cold it was. That's all I was thinking about. Bill Wagner started for them but it was a pretty good night for me.

It looked to me like he had a little hop in his fastball. I was trying to slow the game down, get a good pitch, get the ball down in the strike zone and then stay inside of it--and I just got lucky.

This spring is a little different. I feel pretty good about myself. I just feel that I'm behind. I feel like I'm playing catch-up.

We had some good opportunities. They have some good arms coming out of the bullpen. Have to tip your cap to them.

I've been in a lot of these races, and a lot of them, I've finished second or third, ... I thought David had as good a chance as I did. I thought defense was probably the deciding factor.

We (Derek Jeter and I) want to kill each other. I think we both drive each other and motivate each other. But, when we're off the field, we're like family. I think the nice thing about it is we became good friends before we even mad it to the big leagues. That makes it more of a healthy relationship.

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

They looked all-world today, but it's a long season. They have certainly made some very good improvements. Our league is going to have to watch out for the Blue Jays.

I had a real good feeling about Johnny slapping a double into the gap or something. What makes our lineup tough is that if it's not one guy, it can be another.

I was very impressed. He's got good stuff and he's very poised.

It was good to tie it up and change the momentum.

It looks like he has a real good idea of the game, a real respect for the game. That's rare for young players to have that type of feel at the plate and for the game. He has an outstanding reputation as a player, and it's well deserved.