Andy Phillips Quotations

He just decided to leave and then after he didn't return we just discharged him and that was ten months ago,

I think it's obviously a little transition time for me. Going from in the past playing every day to really figuring out how to stay sharp. And timing is the biggest thing. I'm going a few weeks without at-bats, but I certainly feel the last few days better with my work and what I've accomplished there. So we'll see.

You appreciate that as a player, because you know the manager is standing up for you. He only does that when he feels strongly about something. He doesn't do it just for the sake of doing it. As a player, you feed off that and respond to it.

We've had the same question, ... What was it that brought him back here? We just don't know.

I've been on the elevator for a couple of years.

It's a little transition time for me, going from playing every day to figuring out how to stay sharp. The first couple of weeks, you try to figure out what the best scenario is to try to do that. It's been good to find out some different things to stay sharp.

It's great for those guys and they're taking advantage of it. It's a big head start for them. The WBC has been a big plus for all of us coming out of the organization. We're getting a chance to show what we can do.

I looked around at one point and it was almost all guys from the farm system. It was kind of cool to see.

If you think about it, he's the perfect New York pitcher. Nothing bothers the guy.

All I can control is what I'm doing here. The expectations that I have on myself far exceed any situation.

The main KLA elements are cooperating, but we don't know what fringe elements are out there,