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,...

It just happened where I’m the guy that has to get skipped. I’ll be ready to pitch Saturday.

I just look at it as, ‘Wow, what an opportunity,’

I don’t know how I got through losing and being in last place every year. Obviously, simply because I’ve never been in this situation. I’m just very, very thankful.

I’m trying to eliminate the get-yourself-into-trouble part. That’s not fun, but it happens. I’ve been compensating so far.

I’m happy. Being in a race and helping the team, I don’t think I could have written a better script.

They told me when I came over here that we were trying to piece it together until we could get over the injuries, … Between Small, myself, even Proctor making that one start, we’ve done...