It’s hard to argue that it’s slowed down the salaries a little bit,

I’m over that. Whatever happens, happens. I think we have a program that’s more than efficient. If someone wants to get involved in our business, so be it.

It will be interesting to see the impact on the game. It’s a very long season. I think players were using them as a way to not feel tired sometimes or sluggish. Everyone is looking...

Doing what we’re doing right now … we should be winning.

A lot of times, the guy that’s out there pitching, you probably played with him somewhere already, … Nowadays, it seems like everybody knows everybody.

It seems like Frank does that a few times over the course of the year, so I don’t know if it helps or not. But as a player, you always want to know your manager...

After that first inning, … I felt like, ‘OK. Everything’s fine.’

Unless my arm falls off, I’m not planning on getting this close to 300 wins and shutting it down.

What may have happened in the past, it doesn’t matter. This is a different year and a new team that’s constructed a different way. Today, you saw what it is that we’re excited about.

We’re trying to make a name for the 40-and-older crowd. It’s good to see guys with our style of pitching still doing it and doing pretty well.

We can. I’ve said all along, our talent is equal to that of any team in this race. We just have to do it.

I think we need to do everything we can to put everyone’s mind at ease about players using steroids,

You’re always making adjustments and working on things in this game. If you take things for granted you can get humbled real quick. I have a lot of pride. I don’t want to go out...

Oh my God. Everybody knows he’s strong. Still, when you see something like that, it’s impressive.

You do a little more homework. You pay attention (during Friday’s game) a little more because you don’t have a lot to go on. It’s tough. Scouting reports help a little, but you don’t know...

We’re just off to a good start, and they’re not. It’s just one series in April. What will it mean in a month if we win two of three or lose two of three? It...

If there was ever any … question about what kind of player he was going to be, it was on the offensive side of the ball. There was always a feeling that offensively, he was...

I think you’re going to see another winter where free agency is not as … chaotic as it has been in years past, … It’ll be more like last winter.

As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no...

Having Billy makes us a better team. He will give us a sense of security in the late innings.

I was tired (in the fifth). Striking a lot of guys out is hard work. I realized in the fifth I didn’t have a lot of ground outs.

(It) kind of locks me in, makes me feel good about my target and where I’m trying to go and where I’m trying to step with my pitches. It just kind of gives you a...

I know about it but it’s not something that is on my mind, … I just want to get it out of the way.

Yeah, 300 wins is a motivating factor for me to continue to do it, there’s no question about it. But the greater motivating factor is that I still enjoy it (pitching), and I feel like...

It was pretty good for day one. I did much better in my pitching than I did in my vertical jump and my long jump.

I get butterflies every day I pitch. Every time I go out there, I get them a little bit. You want to do well. You try to control it by trusting yourself and the preparation...

You know it’s going to be a tight game and one run can be the difference. . . . Both of us threw well, but Timmy threw a little better. I like the way I’m...

I’m starting to get a little bit of a complex about it, yeah. It’s the kind of thing that it happens from time to time, but it seems like it’s happening a lot to me...

We need to wipe away as much doubt about this as we possibly can. Anything we can do to take away people’s suspicions, we need to do that.

The difference this year, … he doesn’t seem like he’s chasing as much. He just seems a little more patient, waiting to get the pitch he’s waiting for. Obviously, a lot of times when he’s...

Let’s be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad...

Is he going to be a .300 hitter? I don’t know. Maybe sometime. But I don’t think any of us are expecting that or really looking for that out of him this year. I think...

[He is] the guy you’re not going to let beat you.

Same result each time — unfortunately,

I think it’s just getting to be an increasingly difficult thing to do in the day and age we’re in now, … More than anything else now, I think it’s just the offensive explosion. It’s...

I was pleased with how I pitched and what I was doing, but the results aren’t what I wanted, … You make at least one bad pitch a game and mine was to Matheny.

I think a lot of guys at some point and time show some variation of that pitch.

I was tired. Striking out all those guys is a lot of work. That’s just not my game. That’s three games worth of strikeouts for me, but it’s fun.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision,

All I can do is keep trying to pitch and keep giving us chances to win, … Sure it is frustrating when you try and go out there and win games and do not.

Yeah, I’m a little upset about it. I don’t think it’s anybody’s business. I really don’t. That’s the way I’ve always looked at it.

I like to be in a position of helping people. I find it very humbling that, simply by playing baseball, I’m in position to help so many people. I never take that for granted.

I don’t like going to young players and forcing myself on them with advice because they get it all the time. But, if someone asked I’d help them anyway I could. When they approach you,...

I’ve had really good ones and a really bad one. I’ve been on both ends of it.

This is one of those games that’s tough to lose.

I wish he had hit it a little harder. Someone would have caught it.

I think it was important for us to finish strong,

It’s just the environment that we’re in right now. There’s a lot of people who still don’t want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it’s going...

The sooner you know, the more you can focus.

With all the guys in our lineup, you have to pitch to somebody.