Luis Matos Quotations

Right now I'm really feeling comfortable at the plate in the last five or six days. When I feel like that, I don't look for a pitch. I look for something around the strike zone or something that I know I can handle.

I always play hard. I don't need that kind of thing to play hard. I just need to stay healthy and do my thing.

What do you prefer? A guy who's worried about the team and wants it to get better, or a guy who's going to be here six years and get in his pocket $72 million and not care about winning? You can't take it like he doesn't like the Orioles and doesn't want to be here. That's not true.

We just shut it down all of a sudden and started playing bad baseball.

We wish that we could do it earlier for Chen because he pitched a heck of a game.

The third base coach tells you to stay, you stay. I don't want to look like a bad runner.

That's in the past. He says he wants to stay here. I don't expect him to say he's sorry.

They told me they want more homers and RBI than last year. I had a good average and everything, but I didn't have power numbers.

They told me they want more homers and RBIs than last year. I had a good average and everything, but I didn't have power numbers.

It's pretty bad right now. It's real frustrating to be losing all these games.

I'm not worried about that, ... We have a lot of guys whose job that is.

He's only been here two or three weeks. I know he's a hustle guy. I have it in my mind he's always going to be there. We need to communicate a little better.

I don't react any differently. He's going to be a teammate, we're going to fight for a position. That's what I did last year, that's what I need to do again this year.