Ron Gardenhire Hopefully Quotations

Lew is fine wherever you put him. He's going to play like Lew, he's going to hustle, run balls out and hopefully some of his balls will fall in. Last year he wasn't as lucky as he had been the year before. A lot of times hits will go down to being lucky, and this past year he wasn't quite as lucky.

He gets a little wound up here, no doubt. Hopefully we can calm him down a little tonight.

Hopefully tonight is the start. We'll have to see what the other guys do behind it now.

Kenny Rogers is not the guy he likes to face very often, so we sat him out. But he was ready to play. We've lost a lot of people, and Jacque is one guy who needs to step up.... Hopefully that's a good start for him to get on a roll.

Our bullpen looks like they need to be in those situations a little more, and hopefully we'll get them in there.

We're struggling a bit right now, trying to find our way and trying to get healthy at the same time early in the year. We've got a lot of baseball left, so hopefully we'll right the ship in the next few series and play a little better baseball, pitching and defense.

It's been a long year. We've been through a lot of ups and downs, so hopefully we'll come out and put forth a great effort this weekend.

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.