Starters Quotes

You're putting guys in situations like you would put your starters. You would like to see the young guys respond. - DeWayne Walker

You're not really sure how much you're going to reshape your team. What you try to do is get the best players in to compete, and those players eventually separated themselves on who's starters, who's second team and who doesn't make the squad. - Mike Shanahan

You're confident (when he's on the mound. He's one of the top five starters in the game. You don't expect to lose that game. - Craig Biggio

You see guys now who are hitting .400 who, come September or July, they're going to be hitting .200. And there are guys who are notoriously slow starters who, as the season gets going, they'll play up to their career averages. We have guys who are not performing well right now who have good track records, and they'll be there when all is said and done. - Mike Hargrove

You probably need a seven- to nine-man pitching staff among starters to really get through a season. I would say seven, maybe eight. You're always looking for what's going to happen, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, in case of a breakdown. - Joe Maddon

You might not see it in the statistics, but we really played well on defense. Most of [Rensselaer's] yards came in the fourth quarter when we played our starters. - Doug Luke

You have your No.1 and 2 starters and your No.3 hitter... and you'd just build around that. They have more [young players] coming. - Joe Girardi

You have to start somewhere. This is definitely a positive step for us. If [the starters] remain solid and do what we do and our bench keeps playing this way, we're going to be tough down the stretch. - Vince Carter

You have to have some of the starters out there in the mix with some of the guys off the bench because you don't want to just throw five cold guys fresh off the bench. - Lamond Murray