Clint Hurdle Quotes on Abilities (7 Quotes)

I'm trying to help him slow himself down a little bit. He was a little bit better (Wednesday) night, but I have an ability to slow him down a little bit more.

With the ability he has to hit the ball to all fields, in the fifth spot, he's very flexible and dangerous. When Holliday did miss, Atkins did a lot of cleaning up last year, and he takes a lot of pride in driving in runs.

It is something we have dealt with since Day 1. You can't recreate that environment. It's just the ability to go out there and slow the inning down as much as you can.

He continues to stay in the hunt. He keeps hanging around. All our middle infielder guys have about the same amount of at-bats. Jamey Carroll, Wilson, Jason Smith and Omar Quintanilla. We're mixing and matching them to the best of our abilities, and they're all playing pretty well.

When he plants his front foot and really stays behind his swing, he's got a little gap power. How it plays out, time will tell, but he has the ability to hit a ball out of the ballpark.

One of the toughest things to do as a man in anything is to slow down when we're not doing what we think we should be doing. As men, we want to step on the gas. That's a defining point. It's a growth thing for me. It's the next step into a player becoming more entrenched at the Major League level, to have the ability to slow the game down.

He painted himself in a corner and fought his way out. That showed some pitch ability. One, some fortitude, two, and some more gray hairs on the manager, three.