Roger McDowell Quotations

The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? that first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work.

I don't feel I have warranted anything to be called Camp Roger. It's been called Camp Leo, and rightfully so.

Obviously you'd like to have everybody throwing up zeroes all the time. But that can't happen. Pitchers can go into slumps just like hitters. For whatever reason, sometimes they do it collectively.

He had a big smile on his face. For me, that was the greatest indicator.

I wouldn't take back anything that I have done because it's who I am. I like to make people laugh. But I'm not a player anymore. I'm a coach, and it's a different job. I want to do my job, and that's to get 11 or 12 pitchers ready to pitch a game.

We don't always talk baseball. I want to know everything about these guys. I feel that if I know them, I can be a better coach.

He came in last year and was a big part of the bullpen. He was someone we were counting on, but it didn't turn out that way so we'll find another route.

I feel pressure every day I come to the ballpark. Obviously, it's a different scale now.

Obviously, this is exciting. It's special. No, make that real special, given the history of this organization with its pitching and all the winning. There are a lot of good pitchers here. And how many consecutive division titles have they won? Fourteen.

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that success.