Phil Garner Games Quotations

I don't know. We have lost some tough games in the course of the season and managed to bounce back. No question in my mind that we will bounce back and play well.

He's had a couple of games when he actually looked a little bit human - but sometimes we have to pick him up, too. Sometimes, you have to outscore the other team.

What you saw tonight is not unusual for Roy. This was a big stage and we've had trouble winning games in this park. He stepped up, and took control, and did a super job.

What worries me is that we've had three games that are stinkers. We didn't look good against Milwaukee and we didn't look good tonight. They pretty much took it to us tonight.

What worries me is that we've had three games that are pretty much stinkers right here lately,

I think it's going to be difficult because (Clemens) will probably win the rest of the games this year (and) that's going to tighten it up,

I think Willy has shown us that he can play in these big games all along the course of the season. He's come up big for us, and he's made a couple of really nice plays in the hill out there, but that was not an easy play (to end the eighth) and he did a terrific job on that.

I was just looking at the rest of the games and seeing how to make it fair for them to be able to catch and be in shape and do the best they can do, too, while taking a good, hard look at Munson.

Willy has shown that he can play in these big games all along the course of the season, ... He's come up big for us.

This was a big win for us. But our goal is to get 15 games over .500 and then assess where we are.

You don't want everyone hot all at the same time unless it's the last week of the season. You need to be able to win ball games without everyone being hot.

It's just something that's been a trait of ours all year, but we managed to win. It's like some of our typical games and somehow we managed to get through it. We didn't eke one out this time and that's unfortunate because we had been doing a pretty good job of coming up with runs somehow.

It was a surprise. He's very good in close games about not getting hurt with the long ball.

I want him to be in the 15-win range, maybe six or seven games over .500. My only criticism, if I have one, is that he gets behind hitters during the regular season. He doesn't do that in the playoffs because he is aggressive and gets ahead of the hitters.

I knew we weren't a 15-under-.500 team. When the season started, I thought we were probably five games over .500. Then, if we got a little bit lucky, I thought we could be 10 games over. I think we're fortunate to be 14 over .500 because we didn't figure on Andy Pettitte (17-9, 2.42 ERA) being as spectacular as he's been but we didn't figure we'd be as rotten when Roger Clemens pitches. Go figure.

I like him. I think he's going to be a real good pitcher. He's pitched two real good games against us.

These guys are tough, I'm telling you. I don't recall any easy games against them. But we'll take it because it was important.