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KELLY JONES I was upset with the pitch I threw and mad at myself because I shook him off and he wanted something...
JON GARLAND I would think that he knows that when he came off the mound and was saying the things he was saying ...
FIELDIN CULBRETH He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me, ... I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It r...
ERIC HINSKE He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me. I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It reall...
ERIC HINSKE He threw off the mound toward the end, really just to get him up on the hill and get used to the slo...
LARRY ROTHSCHILD It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling.
RUSS ADAMS It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look a...
BRANDON INGE I asked him where he got to and he said probably 80 per cent. Just seeing him actually on a mound ag...
BRAD ARNSBERG![]()
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I had no idea he was this good as a complete player, at the plate and on the mound. We're very lucky...
DRU MAHONEY Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA He has lost his (expletive) mind if he thinks I'm going to let him walk off into the sunset with my ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I told him it was a piece of (expletive), and no one would buy it.
ANDREW FASTOW I was just trying to attack him, especially after the error. I got strike one on him but he just stu...
ANDY GRAHAM They made orders for him to put the rock down and surrender and he raised the rock up over his head ...
WAYNE DELK![]()
Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet,...
GLEN COOK One pitch was low, and it would have been a 3-1 count. Instead, it was a strike. This guy is throwin...
JOE CUNNINGHAM I looked at Matt when he came to the corner and told him that he just won that fight and of course, ...
BRAD WICK He's a bulldog on the mound. He's a great pitcher. The difference between him and other pitchers is ...
BRIAN JEROLOMAN I'll be thinking about it, but I want the ball again. I just got behind him and he was looking fastb...
JOSH HANCOCK![]()
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that h...
NORMAN LEAR He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a ...
JOE MADDON The ball was really coming out of his hand well. I don't think his arm strength is built up quite en...
DAVE PIEPENBRINK I approached the vehicle and saw a gun in his hand, ... I asked him to drop the weapon and at that p...
JOE HOWELL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL ![]()
It was nice to get the first one out of the way. I've thrown off that mound and I felt pretty comfor...
JON LESTER I immediately looked at Dale Sveum and forgot that he was my third base coach. He might have tipped ...
BRONSON ARROYO I don't give a [expletive] what Beckett thinks. I'm out there competing. I don't care what he does o...
SHEA HILLENBRAND I told him it's okay. I've been there a lot last year. I know the feeling, you just got to shake it ...
MICHAEL PITTMAN He was throwing every pitch for a strike, and he threw it at the right spot.
ADAM EVERETT Kevin told me while we were walking off the mound, ... He said, 'Ground ball coming to you right her...
B.J. UPTON The real tantrums happen less often now. But as he gets older it's getting harder to talk to him abo...
MARTIN GREEN![]()
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on...
WILLIAM GOLDING So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd...
BRAD STEWART Both of them were strikes, ... I don't think I should say [why he was tossed]. He cursed out of the ...
BILL MILLER Justin understands the game and he understands pitching. I can look at him when he's out on the moun...
GORDON MELERINE I screamed and something went off in my head. Immediately it was this huge headache, like my head wa...
TOM DUFFY Price was down 3-0 to that guy, and then came back to strike him out.
CHARLES DAVIS The guy came in with a 1-1 count that was a hard slider, and I hit it off my leg. I was thinking, ne...
ERIC KING I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... It was great to see Adam out on the mound competing for nine innings. His pitch count was low and th...
CHRIS FINNEGAN I didn't really have the two-strike pitch where I can strike a guy out and get out of an inning,
JOE KENNEDY I kind of rolled the dice on that one. If it?s a strike then the inning?s over because (Hunt) has to...
JAY CAMPBELL I block down and he (guard Scott Wells) pulls around. He (Harris) just got me off the ball on that p...
CHAD CLIFTON We wanted to get him some mound work tonight, but we didn't want to pitch him to death. It worked ou...
BOBBY BYERLY [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a littl...
COURTNEY LOVE I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ......
WILLIAM WATSON I told him earlier in the day that I thought he'd do pretty well out there today. He just looked bac...
LAWRENCE TYNES He yelled and cursed at me out of the dugout. I ejected him. That's it.
BILL MILLER I thought Brian threw very well. He was off of his composure a little bit in the second inning when ...
JASON BRANDT I felt good yesterday, ... I didn't feel so good today, but that's part of baseball and you have to ...
JOE KENNEDY He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a ta...
JOE SHUSTER Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80...
AARON NIECKULA He's a guy that just gets better and better every outing. Today was just more of the same from him. ...
HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.
KWAME BROWN It was great to get back on the mound and see a batter again. It's been a while.
BLAINE BOYER![]()
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I...
GARTH BROOKS It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER![]()
Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throug...
DAVID ANDERSON I moved him for Morgan. When he came back from the hand injury, I wanted him in a position where guy...
PHIL GARNER He has confessed to setting out these poisons. I told him it was grossly irresponsible and I also to...
KEN HANKS The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been bette...
MIKE HARGROVE I'm sitting [in the dugout] thinking that we've got the best closer in the game on the mound, but we...
CHRIS CARPENTER He told her that if she screamed or if she told anybody what he was doing, he was going to come back...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ It was a bit of a gamble and as it turned out it was not the right choice. When I came out I was bar...
JARNO TRULLI He's our most emotional player. Everyone in the dugout respects him and likes playing hard for him. ...
REX PETERS To improve that much throughout a season shows how hard he works and how dedicated he is at being a ...
VIN ABENE![]()
He was spit on; he was beaten; he was screamed and hollered at.
BILLY MARTIN The first two or three plays he was in I was about ready to reach out and choke him. After the game,...
ROY WILLIAMS The neatest thing I heard him say was that he couldn't wait to shave it off. I was relieved to hear ...
BRENDA ROETHLISBERGER He can pitch. I saw him last summer in a wooden bat league. He's crafty, just like Cornelius. He's a...
LARRY BEETS The real test will be when we get him on the mound -- and then after his mound exposure, we'll let h...
BRAD ARNSBERG![]()
We'll see where he fits and how he performs. If you don't start him, it would be very difficult to g...
FRANK ROBINSON The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING![]()
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov...
WILLIAM GOLDING He has an incredible work ethic. He is driven for success and he has his priorities straight. It sho...
DOUG SCHREIBER Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him ...
GREG KAATZ![]()
Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subt...
SARAH MAYBERRY Tony was a little faster the first 20 or 25 laps of that run. Then we got equal and started reeling ...
KASEY KAHNE Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER I told my mother it was a good thing. At that point, I thought we could get him to get us some help.
BOBBIE BAITY It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's ...
JOE MAYS It was interesting. He said he didn't play on this course well at all, and I told him that was ridic...
CAREY HAZELL It was so good to get on the mound and feel how I did today, ... I didn't have all my strength, but ...
JAKE PEAVY![]()
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He was an immediate impact. That's what I saw out there, he came out there and it was like he never ...
ALAN ZEMAITIS We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes ...
RICK FERRELL![]()
He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told...
OLIVIA SUDJIC He was facing down spread out. At that particular point I just grabbed him. I checked to see if I ha...
ART SPEIGHT Josh battled out there for his first game. We kept him at 70 pitches. He didn't get in too much trou...
TIM WILLIAMS I thought it was going to be right at him at first, then I turned and it was going toward the gap. H...
BRAD HENNESSEY He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw...
FRANK MINUCCI [Pitching coach] Randy St. Claire and I both think that we would like to start him off in Potomac, h...
JIM BOWDEN I told him before the ballgame that I needed five out of him but he got four. And he told me before ...
CEDRIC HAWKINS
KELLY JONES I was upset with the pitch I threw and mad at myself because I shook him off and he wanted something...
JON GARLAND I would think that he knows that when he came off the mound and was saying the things he was saying ...
FIELDIN CULBRETH He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me, ... I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It r...
ERIC HINSKE He said on the mound he didn't try to hit me. I just looked at him and said, 'Come on man.' It reall...
ERIC HINSKE He threw off the mound toward the end, really just to get him up on the hill and get used to the slo...
LARRY ROTHSCHILD It was good to get him off the mound because he was rolling.
RUSS ADAMS It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look a...
BRANDON INGE I asked him where he got to and he said probably 80 per cent. Just seeing him actually on a mound ag...
BRAD ARNSBERG
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I had no idea he was this good as a complete player, at the plate and on the mound. We're very lucky...
DRU MAHONEY Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA He has lost his (expletive) mind if he thinks I'm going to let him walk off into the sunset with my ...
TERRY MCMILLAN I told him it was a piece of (expletive), and no one would buy it.
ANDREW FASTOW I was just trying to attack him, especially after the error. I got strike one on him but he just stu...
ANDY GRAHAM They made orders for him to put the rock down and surrender and he raised the rock up over his head ...
WAYNE DELK
Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet,... GLEN COOK One pitch was low, and it would have been a 3-1 count. Instead, it was a strike. This guy is throwin...
JOE CUNNINGHAM I looked at Matt when he came to the corner and told him that he just won that fight and of course, ...
BRAD WICK He's a bulldog on the mound. He's a great pitcher. The difference between him and other pitchers is ...
BRIAN JEROLOMAN I'll be thinking about it, but I want the ball again. I just got behind him and he was looking fastb...
JOSH HANCOCK
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that h... NORMAN LEAR He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a ...
JOE MADDON The ball was really coming out of his hand well. I don't think his arm strength is built up quite en...
DAVE PIEPENBRINK I approached the vehicle and saw a gun in his hand, ... I asked him to drop the weapon and at that p...
JOE HOWELL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
It was nice to get the first one out of the way. I've thrown off that mound and I felt pretty comfor... JON LESTER I immediately looked at Dale Sveum and forgot that he was my third base coach. He might have tipped ...
BRONSON ARROYO I don't give a [expletive] what Beckett thinks. I'm out there competing. I don't care what he does o...
SHEA HILLENBRAND I told him it's okay. I've been there a lot last year. I know the feeling, you just got to shake it ...
MICHAEL PITTMAN He was throwing every pitch for a strike, and he threw it at the right spot.
ADAM EVERETT Kevin told me while we were walking off the mound, ... He said, 'Ground ball coming to you right her...
B.J. UPTON The real tantrums happen less often now. But as he gets older it's getting harder to talk to him abo...
MARTIN GREEN
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on... WILLIAM GOLDING So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd...
BRAD STEWART Both of them were strikes, ... I don't think I should say [why he was tossed]. He cursed out of the ...
BILL MILLER Justin understands the game and he understands pitching. I can look at him when he's out on the moun...
GORDON MELERINE I screamed and something went off in my head. Immediately it was this huge headache, like my head wa...
TOM DUFFY Price was down 3-0 to that guy, and then came back to strike him out.
CHARLES DAVIS The guy came in with a 1-1 count that was a hard slider, and I hit it off my leg. I was thinking, ne...
ERIC KING I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... It was great to see Adam out on the mound competing for nine innings. His pitch count was low and th...
CHRIS FINNEGAN I didn't really have the two-strike pitch where I can strike a guy out and get out of an inning,
JOE KENNEDY I kind of rolled the dice on that one. If it?s a strike then the inning?s over because (Hunt) has to...
JAY CAMPBELL I block down and he (guard Scott Wells) pulls around. He (Harris) just got me off the ball on that p...
CHAD CLIFTON We wanted to get him some mound work tonight, but we didn't want to pitch him to death. It worked ou...
BOBBY BYERLY [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a littl...
COURTNEY LOVE I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ......
WILLIAM WATSON I told him earlier in the day that I thought he'd do pretty well out there today. He just looked bac...
LAWRENCE TYNES He yelled and cursed at me out of the dugout. I ejected him. That's it.
BILL MILLER I thought Brian threw very well. He was off of his composure a little bit in the second inning when ...
JASON BRANDT I felt good yesterday, ... I didn't feel so good today, but that's part of baseball and you have to ...
JOE KENNEDY He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a ta...
JOE SHUSTER Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80...
AARON NIECKULA He's a guy that just gets better and better every outing. Today was just more of the same from him. ...
HECTOR RODRIGUEZ 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.
KWAME BROWN It was great to get back on the mound and see a batter again. It's been a while.
BLAINE BOYER
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I... GARTH BROOKS It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER
Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throug...
DAVID ANDERSON I moved him for Morgan. When he came back from the hand injury, I wanted him in a position where guy...
PHIL GARNER He has confessed to setting out these poisons. I told him it was grossly irresponsible and I also to...
KEN HANKS The way he's thrown and the starts that he's had have been absolutely outstanding. He has been bette...
MIKE HARGROVE I'm sitting [in the dugout] thinking that we've got the best closer in the game on the mound, but we...
CHRIS CARPENTER He told her that if she screamed or if she told anybody what he was doing, he was going to come back...
LT. RUBEN DIAZ It was a bit of a gamble and as it turned out it was not the right choice. When I came out I was bar...
JARNO TRULLI He's our most emotional player. Everyone in the dugout respects him and likes playing hard for him. ...
REX PETERS To improve that much throughout a season shows how hard he works and how dedicated he is at being a ...
VIN ABENE
He was spit on; he was beaten; he was screamed and hollered at. BILLY MARTIN The first two or three plays he was in I was about ready to reach out and choke him. After the game,...
ROY WILLIAMS The neatest thing I heard him say was that he couldn't wait to shave it off. I was relieved to hear ...
BRENDA ROETHLISBERGER He can pitch. I saw him last summer in a wooden bat league. He's crafty, just like Cornelius. He's a...
LARRY BEETS The real test will be when we get him on the mound -- and then after his mound exposure, we'll let h...
BRAD ARNSBERG
We'll see where he fits and how he performs. If you don't start him, it would be very difficult to g... FRANK ROBINSON The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov... WILLIAM GOLDING He has an incredible work ethic. He is driven for success and he has his priorities straight. It sho...
DOUG SCHREIBER Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him ...
GREG KAATZ
Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER
He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subt... SARAH MAYBERRY Tony was a little faster the first 20 or 25 laps of that run. Then we got equal and started reeling ...
KASEY KAHNE Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER I told my mother it was a good thing. At that point, I thought we could get him to get us some help.
BOBBIE BAITY It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's ...
JOE MAYS It was interesting. He said he didn't play on this course well at all, and I told him that was ridic...
CAREY HAZELL It was so good to get on the mound and feel how I did today, ... I didn't have all my strength, but ...
JAKE PEAVY
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL He was an immediate impact. That's what I saw out there, he came out there and it was like he never ...
ALAN ZEMAITIS We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes ...
RICK FERRELL
He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told... OLIVIA SUDJIC He was facing down spread out. At that particular point I just grabbed him. I checked to see if I ha...
ART SPEIGHT Josh battled out there for his first game. We kept him at 70 pitches. He didn't get in too much trou...
TIM WILLIAMS I thought it was going to be right at him at first, then I turned and it was going toward the gap. H...
BRAD HENNESSEY He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw...
FRANK MINUCCI [Pitching coach] Randy St. Claire and I both think that we would like to start him off in Potomac, h...
JIM BOWDEN I told him before the ballgame that I needed five out of him but he got four. And he told me before ...
CEDRIC HAWKINS
