I’m not nervous when I face anybody. I’m extremely nervous when I’m sitting down watching a game.

This isn’t fantasy baseball.

Absolutely, you don’t panic. As powerful as this lineup is, you don’t know when it’s gonna happen, but you know eventually they’re gonna score runs. Not only does that take a lot of pressure off...

I come in here and lose; I was losing in Colorado. I’ve been through that. What, am I going to get booed? I was booed in Colorado last year. So I’ve been through that.

You like the pressure but you don’t add any,

I still made pitches when I had to.

I was sort of just floating around. You’re disappointed, but at the same time you understand the situation. I just wanted to pitch.

It’s disappointing. I felt like I had good stuff when I warmed up, and I didn’t think I pitched badly. I didn’t want to come out of the game.

[To get lifted so early,] I was a little bit surprised, … I guess [Joe Torre] didn’t want to let the game get away. Obviously, I want to keep pitching.

I had pretty good stuff. I had command of all my pitches and I kept them off balance. Our offense put up runs early and that made things easier.

It gets kind of monotonous doing this over and over again. But once you physically feel good, you get anxious for the season to start.

I stunk. I got behind in the count early all night long and made it hard for myself. I didn’t make the pitches when I had to.

I just felt they showed tremendous respect to me, … I wanted to show respect back to them.

I get nervous, I’m human, … When I get out on the mound, that’s where I’m supposed to be. I’m in control and nobody can bother me.

It didn’t start well. Coming out and giving up a two-run home run.

Todd Greene told me, ‘Man, it’s going to be the best experience you ever have in baseball,’ … ‘It’s all about winning there. It’s literally like a business and the business is winning.’

Torre said. ”You count your lucky stars.

I don’t figure anything. It’s a decision I’m not making. All I can do is pitch.

I didn’t have to pitch out of jams. For the most part, I kept runners off base and out of scoring position.

I probably haven’t faced a lineup like them, but for me, I’m not scared of anybody. They’re baseball players just like I am. They put their unis on the same way I do. It’s about...

I think getting out of there, … and having an opportunity to pitch every day in a decent pitching environment, it helps. I’m not going to lie.

When I’m able to throw my breaking ball for strikes, I’m going to be successful,

You have an inning in a game when you battle with, whether it’s your control or getting the ball down or whatever. They made me pay for it, but I wouldn’t take back anything I...

Today I could locate all my off speed pitches for strikes, I wanted to keep the White Sox off balance, … I know they are a good hitting fastball team.

I’ve always been relaxed,

For [Torre] to have the confidence in me to get out of [critical spots], that’s big.

Giving up a two-run homer in the first inning is not what you have in mind. But you don’t give up, you don’t think too much about it. You just concentrate on keeping the game...

In Colorado, we knew how to play hard,

It’s just unbelievable for me. I still can’t really explain it, … It’s kind of a crazy road you take to get where I am.

I’m just trying to eliminate putting guys on base. That is the biggest concern for me. I always want to go out and pitch well. You don’t want to get in those kind of jams...

I don’t know, but I’d guess he’d be pleased with what we did tonight. It says something about this team that we can not listen to all the stuff the media and fans are going...

I tried to go back in there with my two-seamer, and it seemed like he was waiting for it, … He made me pay for it.

Everybody around me was a Yankee fan, … We grew up watching them win year after year.

I’ve said it since I’ve been here. If you keep this lineup close, good things will happen.

I know I’ll pitch sometime during the season. I’ll just leave it at that. I’ll be ready to go whenever that is. I had a pretty solid spring and I don’t know how much it...

I didn’t get the pitch where I wanted to. It wasn’t that bad of a pitch, but he’s a great hitter.

I see opportunity here. I want to stay here.

I would’ve like to have finished, but it was a lot of pitches.

There’s a lot riding on it no matter what I’m doing. I can be anywhere in the league and there’s a lot riding on the next start. That’s how I take it.

As a whole group, I think that’s how the team felt. ‘Well, what’s going to happen today?’ As opposed to coming over here, it’s like, ‘There’s no doubt we’re going to win today.’

As an outsider you’re kind of like, ‘Everybody has those problems, why are they making the Yankees a big deal?’

I just got the feeling – and I’m not trying to speak for the Team USA players – that some of these other teams are a lot more into it. They really, really feel like...

Most of it just comes down to being aggressive.

It’s funny to say, but it’s easier to focus on a team like this.

I knew coming in it was either going to be one of those days where I struggled, and I was going to have to sit out there and eat up innings or I was going...

At the time, … the way the other guy is pitching, you’re like, ‘It’s going to be one of those games where it’s who cracks first.’

I wouldn’t get into it with that dude. He’s huge.

It wasn ‘ t that bad of a pitch, but he ‘ s a great hitter, … That ‘ s not what you want to do to a hitter like that.

I’m getting an opportunity to show that I can pitch and pitch in big games, … That’s all you can ask as an athlete, a chance to do big things.

He’s talked to me about having that personality that’s got to match your stuff, … He said, ‘If you’ve got electric stuff, you’ve got to have an electric personality. Hitters don’t have to fear you,...