Damon Hollins Quotations

Oh yeah, I have a lot more confidence in myself. With everything I've been through to get to the big leagues finally and play and have the little success, it wasn't a lot of success, but I did have some success up there. I learn from it and build on it. I can't tell myself, 'Well, I don't know if I can play up there,' because I already showed it.

I got a pitch I could handle. The rest of the game was lights out for the defense and the pitching.

He can throw. He can be something special.

I think I showed I do belong in the Major Leagues.

I was hoping it would stay in the ballpark. I kept my eye on it. I was hoping I wouldn't smash into the wall.

I was hoping it got by him somehow, but that is what great defenders do.

That was a heck of a play right there. I don't know how he caught that ball, but he came up with it. And it was a great play for them, a great win for them.

That was my first at-bat of the night and I was just trying to go up there and hit the ball hard. I was a little stiff, but all you can do is go up there and battle, and that's what I did.

I was blowing, too. But he's been here a few years; he knows how to keep it fair.

We'd probably still be trying to finish off the bottom of the ninth for a one-run victory. I was hoping it got by him somehow. He dove and came up with the ball. That's what great defenders do.

You know four runs aren't going to be enough against these guys, especially early.

We've been going out and taking it to teams and putting the pressure on them. We're playing a lot of teams that are in the race, and we want to mess it up for them.

We just weren't able to get the big hit.

We've just been having bad luck since the beginning of the season. It's just one of those things, what can you do? A guy goes down chasing a fly ball. Another guy fouls a ball off his foot. It's just one of those things that happens in baseball.

With our lineup, there's going to be somebody new every night to get a couple of big hits. We don't have one guy who's going to stand out and take the brunt of it. We're just scrappy, and I think that's a good thing.

You got to bust your tail, because the one thing I learned is that in this game, they're not going to give you nothing.

Oh, dude, it can tie you up in knots. I did that last year.

Definitely. I was hoping right there that we could get something going, and we did. We scratched out a run. We just needed to scratch out a few more.

You never know what it's going to be, a bunt, a safety squeeze.

For a guy like myself, I know there's plenty of room for me to improve and there are a lot of things to work on. But I think I showed I do belong in the Major Leagues.

It's like whoa, this is what you want to be doing. This is why you put in all the hard work. Why am I doing this? Why am I eating so healthy? Why am I running so much? This is why. All this hard work pays off. It really pays off.

It's frustrating for me and the rest of the team to leave guys in scoring position that many times. It's different with a runner on third and two outs, that just hurts your heart. You want to drive in a run. With a runner on second, you know you need a hit and you just want to lock in and hit the ball hard.

I'm no superstar on anybody's team, but I'm still knocking on the door hard. Whatever they do with me, they do with me. This is where I belong. That's how I feel inside.

I just hoped I didn't smash into that wall like I did earlier in the year, and just went on and caught the ball. Coming off that sky and the lights, it's hard to judge the depth of it. I got up on it, and next thing you know I put just my hands up and it went into my glove.