Jose Vidro Quotations

When I came back, my knee started hurting me. If I do the running and the exercises, it will help me better for a long time.

When I hit that ball, I thought I had a shot, but we are in Washington, so I had to run. Who knows what could have happened after that. The bottom line is that we lost tonight.

My knee feels great. My body feels great. All that hard work I put into my lower body is going to pay off. I enjoyed playing the game.

Obviously, we're not doing a good job out there on the field, consistently. Probably, at the end of the year, I'll express myself, because there's a lot of changes that need to be made. But I don't want to go into it right now.

Right now, I feel like I'm capable of playing every day, ... We'll see what happens after tonight.

If they really cared. They'd move the fences in.

Basically, what the doctor told me, is that my legs need to get stronger to take the pressure off my knee.

Basically, he said I need the surgery if I'm going to play without this pain next year,

I feel for them now. They won't be able to see me play. This is not an easy decision. Hopefully, I get another chance. But, as of right now, this is my team, and I've got to be able to play for them this year.

I don't remember the last time I felt this good going into the season.

We've been told since the beginning of the season, 'Oh, next week,' 'Oh, next week,' 'Oh, next week.' Well, here we are, three games to go in the season and we don't have an owner,

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

It hit me harder than I expected when I saw the uniform and some of the guys out there. Not to be able to put that uniform on, it was very, very sad. Hopefully, I will get a chance one day.

Last year, I thought it was over with, ... But it keeps happening again. ... This is a pain that doesn't want to go away.

I will be playing close to every day from tomorrow on. Everything feels fine. I will run tomorrow, and I'm pretty excited to get going.

My past two years have been injury-plagued. This spring training is very important for me.

I was thinking, 'Man, I gotta get a hit,' ... But I was also thinking ? 'If I go down, at least I go down against a good pitcher.'

It is different from last year, definitely. I thought it was going to be a full crowd, like last year. It didn't happen that way.

That's the way things are going for us this year, ... It's tough.

We can't let this go on. I know it's early. It's only eight games, but we have to make this change.

We can't keep winning one game in a three-game series. We have to try to win the series or sweep it and we're not doing it.

We've been hearing since the beginning of the season, 'Oh, next month. Oh, next month. Oh, next month.' Here we are, and we still don't have an owner. It could hurt a lot because a lot of guys have their hands tied again.

We are in the same ballpark and we are not doing our jobs. That's what I'm saying. It's as simple as that.

We're not swinging the bat very good. We're not putting everything together. It's only eight games but we can't let things keep going this way. We have to find a way to turn it around.

We didn't get that big, big hit. We were right there to put this game out of reach.

We didn't expect to be 2-9, nothing is going our way. The energy is there. Guys are relaxed. Guys are playing hard, for some reason we're not getting wins.

When you have a group of guys the talent that we have here it's getting old definitely. We expect people to do the job on a consistent basis. Maybe one day we do it but we go out three days without doing it.

We want to get home badly and stay a while. It's tough living out of a suitcase. It feels like we're still in Spring Training.

Dr. Thomas knew I made the right decision by avoiding surgery. Everything is going like we planned. But I had to work hard and that's what I have been doing.

Everything went fine this winter with the program that I was going with my leg. I want to keep doing it here to make sure I don't miss any games during the season.

Everything was settled before the game started. I'm glad it was a nice clean game out there. We're not here to fight anybody.

I understand everything Soriano is saying. I would probably try to work it out. That's a team decision. I hope that both of us can be in the lineup at the same time. That would be great, because adding Soriano to the team is very good. I'm waiting for the team to make the right decision. Some way, somehow, we have to get this working. I'm happy that both of us are here.

Something's got to be changed, but it's up to us. The changes that need to be done are within ourselves. The guys who are in the lineup need to perform.

This is the best I've felt going into the season. It feels good every time I wake up in the morning. I feel better than I did the day before. That's probably the biggest reason I've got a big smile this spring training.

This ballpark is not a good ballpark. It killed us last year, and it's going to kill us again this year. The organization looked deep into it last year, saw what happened and didn't change anything, so I guess they didn't care about it.

This ball club is a lot better than last year. There's no way we're going to keep doing this.

They scored a lot of runs. Why can't we do it?

It was only 3-0. If you don't have a ball club that can come back from a 3-0 deficit you're in trouble. We've got what it takes to come back. It just didn't happen.

I told Frank I want to play a lot more. I want to see how my body reacts after three days and we go from there.

Forget about everything that happened in spring training. Spring training is spring training. Now it's the regular season.

It's time to make a decision. Somebody should take the responsibility and tell us how it's going to be, ... They just need to treat us like a big-league team. I don't understand why. Somebody should make a decision.

It's been a very frustrating year for me, because I want to be out there,

It's up to me ? it's my call, ... Hopefully, I can start the game tomorrow. The pain has gone down a lot, and I think I can go out there and produce.

It's up to me -- it's my call, ... Hopefully, I can start the game tomorrow. The pain has gone down a lot, and I think I can go out there and produce.

Don't be alarmed, this is nothing major. I'm gonna try (Saturday), but to be sure, it'll probably be Sunday.

It's something we didn't expect at all. Definitely it's not going to help the team. It's going to bring this team down a lot.

It's not going to take one guy. It's going to take a lot more than that.

It's an airplane field, it's not baseball dimensions.

It killed us last year and I am pretty sure it's going to kill us this year.

It's hard. I won't lie to you. It's hard, ... We have to work a lot extra, a lot harder than other teams.

It was more than I expected. The fans ... incredible.

I've got to get to second base. I've got to try my best to do that. I was going to be aggressive. It took a perfect throw.

It's very important for me to have a good year.

I want it to be over with and just clear my head,

Once they get the butterflies out of their heads, they'll be fine. I went through that. The first couple of games you try to do too much. I don't know if that's the case, but it looks like that, because they're swinging at really bad pitches. But they're both good players, and I think they're going to bounce back. It's only four games.

I'm going to have to make a decision in a couple of days, ... The doctor suggests I need to clean my knee again, to do another surgery.

I just want to be the player that I was a couple years ago. If I stay healthy, I'm going to do that.

I'm very happy I didn't do the surgery. I'm very happy I went home and busted, worked hard and made myself better. ... I want to show the organization that they can count on me for the whole year. That's important to me.

I'm very happy. Everything was good today. It was a lot better.

I'm a second baseman - where should I play? What's going on here is not my problem. It's not his problem. It's the team's problem.

I just really can't wait for this week to be over. I want to go home and relax my mind. I just got to get out of this game right now for my health.

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

I don't know if I'm going to be here by the time they build the stadium, but obviously that's a great step. This ball club is going forward, and that's very good news.

Hopefully Soriano can decide to play the outfield, and he can be the guy that steps up for him. Now we definitely need Soriano to play outfield.

I felt very good. I very excited. I'm happy to get that one under my belt. I don't know what to say.

I felt today that my knee was stronger than what it was, ... Right now, it's just going to be pain. ... The cortisone shot helped me a lot and also the time off the field I was able to get.

I'd have to say, easily, it's been my worst year,

I couldn't do any running, couldn't do any lifting, because I couldn't push my leg.

You know, ... sometimes it's good that you don't have all those eyes on you.

The guy was very aggressive. It's not like he was pitching around everybody. We just couldn't do our job.

You've got to get a lot of things out of your head when you are hurt year in and year out. You go back and have the same injury again, that stays in your head. I was able to overcome all of that. Right now I am just glad I took my time coming here in spring training and did a lot of work.