Clint Hurdle Quotes on Opportunity (15 Quotes)

He's welcomed the opportunity. There comes a point and time in your career where you do what you are asked to do.

There comes certain situations where I think a manager has an opportunity to make a statement to his team. You don't want to miss them. I might have missed one with (Cory) Sullivan earlier in the season.

If he wants to be back with this team it won't be as part of the starting rotation. He has to see the bullpen as his opportunity.

Our goal was to give them something to hold onto over the winter. At the start of the season, we knew we had a difficult task in front of us, a lot of challenges. A lot of opportunities were extended to a lot of young players. And a lot of young players answered.

I played in the playoffs in three of my first four big-league seasons, ... but I haven't been to one since. I relish that opportunity. It doesn't come easy. You are not lucky when you get to that level.

He's been working on an assortment of pitches to use if that opportunity is ever presented to him. I think he's wasting his time.

Nothing provides an opportunity for growth more than adversity. They can handle it one of two ways they can deal with it, become better from it, work through it. They can feel sorry for themselves and make a bad situation worse. So, it's all part of growing up and I expect them to handle it very professionally.

With production comes entitlement. If you play better you get more playing time, which means more opportunity. Cory has been on a successful run of late. He is stroking the ball well and playing great defense.

I think by far and away he was way ahead of the pack at the time he went down. But the numbers he has now, they still spell out pretty good in the big scheme of things if you want to dissect numbers and break them down. Everybody else had an opportunity of three months to really put some distance between themselves and him and elevate themselves, but it didn't happen.

We've got to play and win games. That's the best answer to all the baggage that any group will carry here that plays in Colorado from the previous records. This group has an opportunity to define itself and separate themselves from some of that baggage.

They have a lot to prove. I look forward to the opportunity to go play games. They believe they can beat anybody.

He very well could, if he pitches well enough, ... That's been mapped out for him, told him he could have that opportunity.

Danny is taking advantage of the opportunities that he's been given. He's provided some very good defensive stability behind home plate. His receiving and his blocking and his throwing has been a marked improvement over anything that we've really had here in a long time.

Two weeks of rest is not going to hurt him. It may help him, because it will give him the opportunity to relax.

It's just another example of backing up what we've talked about with action, nothing more than that. We need him to get some games in at second. An opportunity today presents itself. We move upon it. We'll see how it goes.