Johnny Damon Good Quotations

I think the guys were pretty much teasing him saying he should have did that last year. He's the best. I thought he threw the ball well. It was good to see the best right out the chute. I know exactly what I need to work on. Get my timing down. It was a good day.

I thought all the players did a good job representing the game. I think now people are going to appreciate how the game is played in other countries.

If Cleveland would have gotten in, they had as good a shot as anyone to win it,

You'll never see me be mad. I can't control that. I can control the way I raise my kids, how I treat my wife, my family, friends and teammates. It's all in good fun. It's a game, and that's how I look at it.

I really didn't feel anything bad today, so that's a good thing. My strength was much better today doing the external strength test. That didn't hurt.

It's good to be back here. Everyone is happy to be back. It adds some life back into spring training.

It's weird, because we need to learn how to win these close games. We need to learn how to push across runs. It just shows how good a pitcher can be when he's around the strike zone and doesn't walk anybody.

Schilling is one game, ... It would be nice to get him back, and I think he will be, but we also have some other good guys. If we want our ace, Schilling is going to have to be the guy who has to be that.

Schilling is one game. It will be nice to get him back. But I also think we have some pretty good guys. That's a formidable rotation. But if we want our ace back, he's going to be it.

It's not good anytime you blow a game. The only thing we can do is go out there and give Mo another chance tomorrow.

I seem to have gotten rid of that. I should be good to go. I plan to be in the field come Wednesday night. My legs are in pretty good shape now, but playing in the field will definitely help me out and get me more prepared.

It was good to see the best right out of the chute. I know exactly what I need to work on. Get my timing down. It was a good day.

He's the best pitcher in the American League, period. Fortunately, he didn't have his A game. That shows how good he is.

It's definitely very disappointing. I guess we just needed to swing the bats a little better and help out our pitching staff tonight. We had some good swings, and unfortunately we just couldn't do much more.

The kid did a good job. Against some of these guys we haven't seen too much, you might be guessing (at the plate).

I feel good about things. Worst-case scenario here, we would've only been one game up, so three's all right. We wish we could've extended it, but Randy Johnson pitched a great game, as did Tim Wakefield.

So there's not much comfort right now. We know we have to go play good baseball or we know our season is going to be over.

They came back and kept scoring. It definitely takes some wind out of your sails. There was a lot of running for us out there -- there has been for a while. We definitely need to get better. We know how good we are. Hopefully we can come out tomorrow and change it up.

I was making sure he would take me out to get some sushi this year, take me to some good Japanese restaurants. I told him I'll take him to some good Thai restaurants.

I grabbed Trot Nixon's bats today and I'm grabbing any bat that feels good now.

I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.

We're definitely excited. We just beat a very good Blue Jays team. We're going to go see what we can do.

It's ours to lose. We got a good enough team to get there.

Wake is one of our most reliable starters and he has been over the years. It's a good thing there is no break, but he's going to be very sore.

Many thought he was done years before this, but he keeps coming back, as good or better than ever.

I love it. We have pressure on us, but it's a good pressure.

We did make a big comeback, but a loss is a loss. We competed and that was good to see because we haven't really come back at all this year.

I thought Joe's introductory speech really hit home. He talked about enjoying the game, not letting it pass you by, knowing we do have a good team. That's why the goal here is getting to the World Series.

The last thing we want to do is to embarrass our country, with how much they've given to every single Major League player. We can't go there and get embarrassed. We need to go out, hustle, play hard and do all that good stuff. There are some tough teams, so we can't expect to go out and win just by throwing our gloves on the field.

For me, this is getting me ready for April 3. Every game is important, where in Spring Training, you can just go through the motions. Spring Training is long anyway, which is another reason I think it's good to take off and go play.

We had three pretty good hitters up, ... I felt after those guys made the two outs I was going to pick them up.

We're not happy. We felt like we had a good enough team this season to win it all. We got to the playoffs, which is the first step. We just couldn't put anything together in this series.

This place has been very good to our team. A bunch of our fans cannot get tickets in Boston. For them to come down on a weekend and take part in this, that says a lot.

I'm going to spend a lot of time with these guys and I want to get off to a good start, say 'Hi' and kind of get things rolling. This is going to be my family for this season, the next four seasons.

I'm not going to get too excited about anything, not until we clinch a playoff spot and then after that not until you win the World Series. So there's not much comfort right now. We know we have to go play good baseball or we know our season is going to be over.

Good way to start. Get embarrassed on the first play.

He didn't even want to look at me when he walked back to center. He's done that to many players -- especially me -- so it's good to return the favor.

Everyone, when they talk about our team they talk about your offense. Our pitchers are capable of going out there and throwing good games.

A good leadoff hitter is tough to find. And I think New York just found the best leadoff hitter in the game.

He was on the phone. He's always on the phone. So I kind of just stopped him and said, 'Hi. It was good seeing him.

There's no panic, we know we're a good team. No way we thought we'd be in this situation, 1-4, but this team can build a lot of wins in a row.

I came close, ... But close isn't good enough.

You know they're booing a uniform now. They don't boo bad players. They boo good players.