“If I knew the reason why, we would be 5-1 in the series or undefeated. We played a great game yesterday and we came up short. That's baseball. The effort has always been great, it just has not happened.”
“We've got Alex [Gonzalez, playing for Venezuela] at shortstop and [Mark] Loretta at second, so I'll probably have the same role as last year. I'm getting to the point where it is what it is.”
“He brought that up -- the speed of the game. It's a little bit different here than in the Minor Leagues, and you can take advantage of it sometimes. People go through the motions sometimes, and if you're [thinking] ahead of them, you can take advantage of them.”
“I think that's pretty good because most of the time the line drives that you hit either late or early are the ones you crush and go down the lines. I think it would help.”
“There are a lot of kids out there and people who are having conversations and not paying attention to the game and they can get hit. I've got a glove and I can get hurt out there. Imagine what can happen if you don't have a glove.”
“I never had a chance to go the Olympics or Pan American Games. Just having a chance to put that jersey on, you represent more than the team. You represent the country and what you stand for. I know we're Americans. But [fans] don't see us as American citizens. We're Puerto Ricans. It's going to be a big deal for us.”
