Roy Halladay Quotations

The pitches they hit weren't very good pitches. To me, that's not a pitch-selection thing. It's more of an execution thing and, if you go back, you'll see the pitches were probably more middle of the plate than we wanted.

Loyalty for me is very important. You don't see it a lot in sports, not as much as sometimes I think you should. It's something that's important to me, it's something I value. It makes it easier when you're treated the way I've been treated.

Since I've been here, it's felt like a family for me. It's the chance to be here for another five years that I didn't want to pass up. Everything we talked about last time -- about what the organization wanted to do -- it's come full circle. All of that's happened.

Right now my biggest emphasis is on location, making sure they're quality pitches and I feel good. (Velocity) is something that comes, get a couple of more times out and that will take care of itself.

I could see the light line, it was evident from the X-rays, ... I recognized it right away.

I felt great. I didn't have anything like I had in the past. I'm excited going forward. I threw 90 pitches and felt great the whole time.

I felt good. I felt the excitement and adrenaline running through my body. It was definitely fun, even if the results weren't there.

I feel good, obviously anxious to get going. Those last couple of starts always seem to drag on a little bit. It's going to be fun, we have a good team and to see where we stand here in the first month is going to be fun.

I feel like it's over and done with. The one thing I've learned in the past is if I miss one start and get it taken care of and if I make 34 starts instead of 35, then it's probably the right thing to do. Hopefully this is something when I look back, I'll hardly remember at the end of the year.

I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs.

For us to get into it, we have to find ways to win games like today. That's the biggest thing for me. Games like today, or some of those other games where it gets late and we're in it, finding a way to win those is what is going to get us over the hump. We have to get that going. Hopefully throughout the season, we'll win those close games.

He does a nice job, sets up well. He's fun to work with because he wants to make adjustments for the pitchers, do what you'd like to do and make adjustments for you. It's nice having a catcher like that who receives the ball well so it's going to be fun.

To continue going they way we are isn't going to help it.

Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.

Half an inch either way, it's a base hit,

J.P. wants to win. When you have a GM like that who isn't willing to settle for finishing third every year it causes a lot of changes. Last year we did the best we could to get in it and stay in it but it's nice to see that after the year we had, the first half we had, it still wasn't good enough, that we wanted to get better.

I threw 90 pitches and felt good the whole time. I felt great, there were no problems out there today at all, and I feel good about the arm and should be able to go longer next time out.

I think you always want to have more pitching. There's a lot of things to fill and you have to kind of prioritize and I think pitching always wins.

I think we have the makings of it. Those are two teams (Yankees and Red Sox) that will go out and always try to add on, even during the course of a season. We have to do a good job getting ourselves going early. We have a lot of things here to make a push. If we stay healthy, we're going to end up where we want to be.

I think that is the biggest selling point for me, the city and the people in the organization. Also the steps they have taken, not only bring guys in but everybody they have brought in has been quality people. It's fun to be part of something like that.

Our bullpen has been unbelievable. It's a big difference from where we were. I'm able to come out after five innings and the pen picks me up with four innings.

Physically I felt good. That's always a good thing early on, having the health there. Then you got to work on executing.

Physically, I felt good. So that's always a good thing early on -- having the health there. The cutter was kind of hit or miss today, so there's still a couple things to work on. Obviously, you would like to start better, but I got my work in.

That doesn't bother me, someone who has pitched the whole season should win it, not someone who pitched for three months,

It gave A.J. and the rest of us a better idea where he stands physically. It's left him feeling a little more comfortable about his rehabilitation. And it was good for us, because now we kind of feel that, okay, we can get things done until he gets back.

I think it would be a dream come true to be able to finish my career there. But I've got five years to worry about that and hopefully a couple of World Series rings in between.

Just in talking to (Burnett), he feels like he's in a better situation now as far as teammates and things like that and that makes it a lot easier. I think that's going to help him.

That stops the big inning right there. It kept a guy at first and allowed us to stay in striking distance against Santana.

I wasn't sharp. Physically, I felt good. I need to work on keeping the ball down.

Today was a lot better. It's good to get a couple of innings and then to come in and talk it over between innings and to go back out and make an adjustment or two. For the most part, we're real close.

When I first came up I was just pitching on talent alone,

We got to happy, but for us to get into it we got to find ways to win games like that. Finding a way to win it -- that's what is going to get us over the hump. That will make the difference.

We're kind of at the point where we're starting to get over that rebuilding ... so it's time we started getting it done, getting ourselves into the playoffs.

With every player there's a certain point where it all starts to click. A lot of it is just learning yourself and what works for you.

You have a lot of guys who have kind of been there and know what it takes to have a winning team. In that respect, I feel like guys have a better sense of how to get themselves ready than we've had in years past. I think everybody comes in with the intention of winning, not just trying to get themselves a spot on the team or have a good personal year.

We've reached the point where we need to start being responsible for winning and losing and start moving past the development stage,

We were optimistic in how quick I could have come back. I don't think it's gotten any worse. It has just taken longer than we thought.

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

We had people look at it in Florida right before we left and they said it was muscular so it wasn't really a concern. We felt it was something that would go away. I still felt like I could have gone out and pitched It was close, it never got to the point where it went away. It was just kind of in there nagging.

Even in the spring when they had so many pitchers at an advanced age I wondered about how they would do,

Everybody did something. That's a big part of our team this year, everybody's going to carry the load.

Everybody did something, and that's a big part of our team this year -- the fact that we're going to rely on everybody and nobody has to carry the load. To be able to see that type of game the first time out, where everybody's doing something, everybody's involved, that really plays into what we need to do all year.

Early on, we thought it was going to go faster than it did. It still shows up in X-rays.

Dye's injury was probably the most serious, ... He fouled a ball off his foot in the post-season.

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

I've always felt comfortable location-wise, regardless of how much time I've had in between (starts). It's just fun to go out and compete again. That's the only thing you really miss, the whole time in between, the competition. I felt great, real happy the whole time out. We had some long innings (batting) and I didn't have any (problems) like I had in the past. I'm excited going forward, threw 90 pitches and felt good the whole time.

Orlando is probably the best second baseman I've ever played with. Losing somebody like that always stings a little. But, especially in our division, you have to be able to hit.

The way Randy Johnson pitched his last time out was a good sign for New York. I've got to give the Yankees the edge in the wild card, Boston is better suited to win the division.

They got in there and kind of loosened it up. I feel like it's kind of over and done with.

They had some good ideas to start the whole thing, so we had to come back with something. I think we've put an end to it.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in there.

At any point against this team, if they have guys on base, it's a big at-bat. Regardless of how many runs (the lead is), those are big outs for you. You try everything you can against him. You can't get a guy like that out the same way every time. You kind of have to come up with new things and keep him guessing. It's always a challenge.

It was strange how similar his injury and mine were,

I tried to field it. Fortunately, Russ made a great play. I was just trying to get an out.

It's the chance to be here for another five years that I didn't want to pass up.

It's frustrating and the tough part was that we tried everything we could do to get back,

It's frustrating. We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot you can do. Sometimes you just got to let things run its course.

It's frustrating. We tried to do everything we could to come back. This is something that needs to run its own course.

It's frustrating. I feel like as well as we've gone I could have helped and still could from here on out.

It's nice to have that. We feel good about what we have here but we still feel like there's some holes that need to be filled.

It's been good clubhouse-wise and that always helps. Later on we'll get everyone in there in the same lineup and it will be fun.

It was nice to have that peace of mind. It's something I don't think we would have had done if (not for the insurance).

It was nice, especially for him. We're pretty similar and it was good to be able to tell him what we have here and to have a couple guys on a staff that you get along with well is nice. I was excited about it just to have a chance to be involved with that process.

It stopped a big inning. It kept us in striking distance and gave us a chance to pile up some runs.

They hung in there, they played well and the mistakes I made, they hit. Some days you get away with it. Today wasn't one of those days.

They've got a tough lineup. They make you work, regardless of what the score is. It just seems like they have long at-bats, somehow they get on base and it's one of those games where I was pitching out of a lot of jams.

After three weeks in a cast he was back running stairs and after 10 weeks he was back in a cast,

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

Any time we did any of those running exercises, it was obviously the toughest part for me. Simulated games later on got a little tough.

That's always been a question for debate. I think pitchers never like to go back-to-back facing teams but that hitters sometimes feel like they have a better idea of what they're going to see.

In May, the sixth and seventh inning comes and you are familiar with it. You don't feel tired. It makes a big difference.

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

I had a little bit (of tightness) going into the first start. It was okay. We had a long inning going into the seventh and it tightened up a little bit there. But it wasn't bad. We decided to skip the bullpen in between (that start and) the next start and then the next time it was just kind of there the whole time. It never seemed to go away and loosen up.

In the off-season J.P. talked with me about what the organization wanted to do and it's come full circle. J.P. was very honest and very truthful and they exceeded a lot of our expectations of getting guys that we got. I think I would have been interested no matter what but to have a true chance of winning, it makes it a lot better.

Hopefully it's something that we have a chance to get used to in the future. It's fun and hopefully that's something that will continue this year and we can get that excitement in here for the long term.

He threw well. I think it's a relief for him and obviously for guys here to see him out there and coming back.

I don't think we accomplished what we set out to do this year,

For now, my biggest emphasis was on location, making sure they were quality pitches.

The chance to be here for another five years is something I didn't want to pass up. I really appreciate the way things have been handled. I couldn't be more thrilled than to have the opportunity to be here an added three years. I just can't express how excited I am.

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training,

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have gone out and thrown another 20-25 pitches.

The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.

The biggest thing I've learned is location.