Ned Yost Quotes on Opportunity (6 Quotes)

There were times last year where he would give us an opportunity in the first couple of innings and we wouldn't capitalize and then he would just nail down. We finally broke through.

They've been playing great since they got here. A huge part of what makes this so exciting is watching those kids get an opportunity and do well with it.

He had struck him out the first three times up. I was going to give him an opportunity to face him, and he struck him out again. That was the turning point of the game.

I told him I didn't want to take him out of the game. I wanted to give him an opportunity to get through the inning so we could score some runs for him and get him his 18th win. I told him to get after him and be aggressive.

Really, we had three pretty good games. Rick Helling definitely gave us that opportunity for that to happen today. He had seven real strong innings. He has done a real nice job with his opportunities.

We were waiting for Vic to turn it around. We wanted to give him every opportunity. ... He had a great start at Colorado, and then went right back to making mistakes with his fastball over the heart of the plate at Houston.