Grady Little Quotes

"I don't want to put him in a position that curtails his progress. If he's playing enough for our good, don't be surprised if you see him leave here with us. If he won't get enough playing time, he'll start in the Minor Leagues."

"He hasn't felt any pain whatsoever, and that's why we're turning him loose. If everything goes well, he'll be here Saturday."

"I like the way he plays defense. Even if it's an adventure, it's being aggressive. He had an outstanding day at the plate."

"But I should have known better. I'd been watching these guys hanging breaking balls and walking the bases loaded every day from March through September. I knew, I knew, I knew better than anybody that if I kept relying on them in pressure situations their true colors were going to come out eventually, and that's what you saw tonight."

"When you get everyone involved like that, only good things can happen. That's part of our game."

"The pitching coach came out and I'm sure his words to that pitcher were to try and get a ground ball back to you. I guarantee that's what he told him before he walked away and that's one of those times it happened."

"We've seen a lot of improvement in Jose in the cage. He was at the point where he needed to improve from the left side."

"He hasn't felt any pain whatsoever, and that's why we're turning him loose. If everything goes well, he'll be here in Saturday. If he's physically able to do this, we're ready for him. It's very important to have one of the guys we're banking on being in our regular lineup being back in there."

"His ball was alive and he had a smile on his face, so that was great."

"We have some awfully good choices. They all want to be in the game. Sometimes the choices are made for you, sometimes there are some difficult choices to be made. That's what we hope happens."

"We definitely have some tough decisions to make."

"We've given up a lot of long balls, and it's purely missing location."