Phil Garner Everybody Quotations

Obviously, when you have depth, it's good in one respect for the team, but it's difficult, because if everybody stays healthy, somebody doesn't get much playing time. We'll have to wait until we get to spring training to see how that plays out.

Nice Sunday afternoon softball game, where everybody got to play.

For us, 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been frustrating, ... So this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody that's been involved in it.

Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball. He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.

Well, as everybody can see, he's got an electric fastball, ... He's got a good slider. He has a very good curveball, and his location tonight was excellent.

We are Houston fans, ... and since I've played there, we've lived there. For us it's long-suffering. Forty-four years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been a little bit frustrating, so this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody who's been involved with it.

You learn a piece of it basically from everybody that you play for. I would hope that my managerial style is a great deal like Chuck. He's my mentor.

We'd cut him the same slack we do everybody else. You have to give him three outings before you really take a look at him. He's been throwing some, so you'll probably give him two outings here.

There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you keep going innings without scoring runs, everybody tries to do too much in one at-bat, and that's when you start to get into trouble. That's when it becomes a team slump. It was nice to answer in the first inning.

You're like, 'Am I supposed to feel this nervous and scared?' Then you talk to other guys and realize that everybody goes through that. The key is to talk about it and learn how to channel it.

It's like that 600-pound gorilla sitting in the room that nobody wants to talk about. If you keep going too many innings without scoring runs, everybody starts trying to do too much in one bat. And that's when you get in trouble.

It's an either/or. I don't think it's a major (question). That's not a major question. It's a major question mark for everybody else, but there's coverage there (if Bagwell cannot play). One way or the other, it will work.

You want to get everybody in on the party and make everybody feel good. Today was one of those days when people other than our big names put some numbers on the board for us. You've got to have days like that.