Michael Eisner Quotes

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

I've always been kind of a fourth-quarter guy.

That's the thing about pinch-hitting - you usually have a chance to make a difference in the game.

The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.

I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.

As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate. That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.

When you have an opportunity to help your team in crunch time - as a kicker - that's a dream come true.

I've made a lot of game-winners.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.

I don't let people score on me. I think that's my biggest asset.

Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.

I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

Everybody wants to play late, everybody wants to be clutch.

When it's late in a game and things are tough and you need a basket, someone has to step up. That player has to have the ability to create opportunities and draw fouls.

I want to be the guy on third down, whenever the coaches need a play, they call my number.

Whenever Elway was on the field, you never counted the Broncos out.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.