“We will never give up. We never think the game is over. It’s a team of stars, but not as in I’m better than you and will take your place. It’s as in, if you do your job, I’ll do my job. We put it all together, we do it together. It’s not about me and it’s not about them. That’s the good thing—egos are put aside. There are no egos in the way of what we do and we all understand that. That’s a testament to drafting and the guys coming up together. We don’t go out and get a whole bunch of superstars and drop them in and say, ‘Here, go do it.’ We actually like each other. We know each other so I think that’s what goes on in the clubhouse.”-- Jimmy Rollins
“Just get me to the plate, boys.”
-- Ryan Howard
"It's every little kids’ dream. It wasn’t the World Series, but it was the biggest game of the year for us. It was fun."
-- Scott Eyre
“That’s what you want. You want to be counted on. You want people to expect you to go out there and perform and I’m unbelievably honored to take the responsibility and I feel completely honored by it. It’s a great feeling.”
-- Cliff Lee
"Sometimes it seems it doesn’t matter who is out there throwing because we know we’re going to get it done. We believe in ourselves. It could be a six-run deficit but we still have the audacity to believe we can come back and that’s what makes it so good and really fun to watch."
-- Brad Lidge
I brag on our club all the time, but at the same time I feel good about it because I have other people tell me about our team. ... people started talking to me about our team and they would tell me about how we play, they like the way we play, how we hustle and how we play the game."
-- Charlie Manuel