Jay Gibbons Quotations

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

Obviously, on the road it's going to be a little bit rougher for him. I think it's good for him to come back today and hear some of the cheers.

Obviously, on the road it's going to be a little bit rougher for him.

I feel sorry for him, given the timing of it. You think he's on top of the world after getting 3,000 hits.

I can't figure it out. I'm a little puzzled by it. It's pretty brutal how we're swinging the bats right now.

He was coming right at us. He was challenging us. I felt we let him off the hook a couple of times, but he threw pretty good.

He was coming right at us. He gave us plenty of pitches to hit, but it didn't happen.

He was pretty tough tonight. He left a couple of pitches up and that was it.

We need him happy. He's the team leader. I'm hoping he was frustrated or it was taken out of context.

There has been a lot of distractions. After losing the first game, we showed that we do care and that we want to win.

We're trying to do it for us and end on a good note. It's been such a sour middle of the year. And also for our manager, Sam. Everybody wants to win for him, and we want him back.

You have five innings, that's all you get here, ... After that it's a guessing game. The shadows are not easy to hit. You can't see the spin well, then halfway through it, you lose all of the spin and then even the ball.

We have made significant changes to the policy in the last year and a half. We made the first step by ourselves, and we thought we needed to take the next step. We hope this lets things die down with Congress, because we want to end the problem now and get back to playing ball and not worrying about steroids every day.

We see reporters that we have never seen before. This is national news now. They're all asking the same question.

We see reporters that we have never seen before,

Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.

Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too. Not just your own public scrutiny, but you're hurting your ballclub to win.

First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up.

First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,

I've been working with my mechanics, ... They seem to be a little bit more sound.

Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too.

Ten is a little light, ... Ten, you can get away with it as a team, but 20, you're hurting your ball club.

Anytime a player is day-to-day like a Rule 5 player is, you can't help but take the bad games home with you. We asked for a contract in 2002 and 2003, but the Orioles weren't ready. If they had not given me a contract, I was going to play hard this year and see what happened in free agency.

This isn't a shut case. It's not easy to do something like that, I know. Yeah, he's made some mistakes, but a lot of people have. We're just going to have to see how it plays out.

This is one of the nights that we picked up our pitcher. There is going to be other nights where we're going to win 2-1 (and) they're going to have to pick us up. It was a good night to explode after what happened last night.

A lot of cheers, probably some boos mixed in. Understandable. I think overall it will be better than worse. I've seen a lot of support.

It's just one of those feel-good stories, singing the national anthem at the Oriole game.

It's exciting to win two games in a row like that, let alone one in a month. I love this. I hope we do it every night. It's a lot more fun than winning 10-0.

It's a good feeling to stick around and know you're going to be with these guys for a while. I'm excited about seeing the young guys coming up and growing with you.

I told him after the first two at-bats that he was swinging as good as he did when he left. His swings were really good.

It's almost like throwing the ball back to the umpire. He didn't like the ball. Same thing. It's pretty impressive if he can throw it for a strike.

It's something that probably needed to be done. It's illegal, and it's good we put it in there. There's no reason not to have it in there.

The ball was traveling well tonight. Usually in April it doesn't go anywhere. But 75 degrees, the ball was jumping.

It's an easy pitch to hit if you're looking for it or recognize it.

It's hard not to think here we go again. It's been that kind of stretch for us.

In a lot of ways, he was managing in the past. He just didn't have the title.

I just wanted to give him something. It was the easiest thing I could do. I wanted him to have something of mine.

I really like how this team looks in the clubhouse. I think it's going to be a lot better. We're together for six, seven months. It makes it a lot easier if guys get along and guys have fun. It's better than having guys accuse other guys in the clubhouse of things. That broke us up a little bit.

I came really close, ... I just ran out of arm.

I came into the season with a manager telling me that I'm going to be the first baseman,