San Diego Padres Quotes

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

I'm excited to be a Padre.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

I'm proud to be a Padre. At the end of the day, this is where I wanted to be, and I'm very happy to be here.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.

I was actually more of a baseball and Padres fan when I was younger.