John Buck Quotations

Usually if you have a shift on, they're paid to hit, not paid to bunt. That's a guy that can hit the ball out of the park with any pitch. With Giambi, if he takes a drag bunt, thank you for the single.

Losing is never easy. It ruins your day.

So, I did. I didn't get a good jump, but I still went. But I can't be out on that play.

He has a little experience as a closer, plus there's no doubt about his stuff. It's all about the mental challenge, and we've got the support here to help him through that.

He had a good slider. He was getting ahead of the hitters.

He looked pretty solid. I faced him last year and he looks just as good.

What do you think? We hate it every single day.

He said I hit pretty well against him, so hopefully that will indicate I can catch pretty well against him.

He's kept his sinker low and located his slider on both sides. Whatever I read about him, he's fit to a tee.

He's got the most exciting arm in camp.

He didn't miss it. Everything was down to Damon. We had been pounding Jeter in all day, so we wanted to go down and away with the splitter. Instead, it was up - exactly the opposite of where we wanted it.

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

It has a lot to do before the pitch ever starts, to eliminate other teams picking up signals or something I may be tipping. So I look the same, no matter what the situation or a call or whatever.

It felt good, ... with what our situation is and what their situation is. And they'd been putting the hurt on us all year.

That was a huge inning for us to get the momentum back.

We even saw the street that I drove down every day to eat and go to the field and it was completely under water. You can see the top of the street signs and that's it. It's a shock. I don't know what they're going to do down there.

The deepest in the league, by a long shot. They're all really patient hitters. It's not often you have all nine guys who play tough and take pitches. You've got to go the full nine innings, especially against these guys.

The reasons why the fans aren't out here are the type of season we've had, the time of year it is, not in the race, knocking on 100 losses. I think that's why people are not going to make the sacrifice to stay up late on a school night cause it is not real meaningful.

A slider. He hung that one a little bit up the middle and I was able to stay back on it.

They're swinging the bats pretty well right now,

It's just a matter of time before those broken-bat hits fall our way. And things will work our way and we'll get out of this.

It was the first time he threw a breaking ball since his broken finger.

It's surreal because you look on TV and see the streets where (wife) Brooke and I used to drive down and it makes it feel so much more close to home,

It'll be good. I won't have to think for two of us to try to figure out what works.

They did a good job of taking what they were given and not trying to do too much. Mark is the kind of pitcher who feeds off the other team's aggressiveness.

I like being in control. You feel like you've been a solid factor in winning over, say, a first baseman or a right fielder. That's why I like it a lot. It's such an important role.

I learned the most I've ever learned in one year in baseball, from getting knocked down and getting back up and getting knocked down again. Sometimes that's good for you.

I'm talking with Mac almost every time I'm catching somebody in a game or in the 'pen just about that pitcher -- for one, I know that guy's stuff and I'll review it. And Mac gets feedback from me because I've got the best view in the house.

I haven't really thought of it that way. He's a special player. So it's not like I was going to come in here right off, especially as a rookie catcher, and perform to his level.