Joe Borowski Quotations

What a garbage way to lose the game.

Nobody likes to be considered a rollover or a laughingstock. I think guys are taking pride in the notion we can play and compete with some of these teams, so why not? Why end and just mail in the season? Go as hard as you can and mess things up at the top of the standings a little bit while you're in the process.

Nobody likes to be considered a rollover or a laughingstock,

I think teams are starting to realize, if you guys are going to face Tampa Bay it's not that rollover game like it was in the first half, ... Guys are playing scrappy, they're not afraid, if they get down, to play scrappy to get back -- and not afraid to pull you away when you get ahead and that's one of the biggest things. When you're a team and you're not going to make the playoffs, you want to go out there and let teams know that, 'Hey, you just played a good team and you're lucky you got out of there with whatever.' You want them to remember that it wasn't just 'show up at the park and win.' You want them to know, 'Hey, we just had a very tough series.'

That's a tough way to lose. I wasn't sure what it was but you have to keep going.

You hear stuff all the time out there, ... I'm not going to use that as an excuse. You hear worse things than maybe somebody trying to call time. It might not help, but it's not the reason why everything happened the way it did.

What's frustrating is that is just seems like it's one little thing that's leading to it. Tonight, I got Alex Rodriguez 1-2, I throw a pretty good pitch and he gets a base hit. One bad pitch in the outing, hey ... Giambi's getting paid a lot of money to hit those balls. You can't make mistakes in that situation.

You don't know how bad I was hoping to pitch in this series. I have no ill feelings toward anybody here. My time ran out, and that's unfortunate because I loved it over there.

You don't know how bad I was hoping I got to pitch in this series. I spent five great years here. It's always fun to pitch against guys you've played with and you've known for that long.

Everything happens in threes. It might happen again.

As soon as it came out of my hand, I knew it didn't come out right. When you make a mistake, (the Yankees) are really going to make you pay for it.

I've been battling injuries the last two years, and I'm finally coming into camp feeling fantastic, 100 percent, no problems.

That was a big thing, knowing their bullpen was going to be very young that I would have a chance to pitch at the back end.

You're going to go through little stretches where things aren't exactly going your way, ... But if you keep going out there making your pitches, you're going to get out of it a lot quicker than always worrying about, 'Why is this happening to me?'

They're the type of team that when they start getting guys on, it just gets everybody going. That's when you really have to make your pitches. Because it seems they thrive on if you make a mistake, they make you pay for it.

It was a slider that didn't slide. It stayed right there on the inner half. It was a nice pitch to hit. I tried to blow it foul, but it stayed true right down the line.

It was a slider that didn't slide. It stayed right over the middle of the plate. A nice pitch to hit. Hey, he's getting a lot of money to hit those balls, so you can't make mistakes in those situations.

It was a slider that did not slide. It stayed right there on the inner half. A nice pitch to hit.

I tried to blow it foul, but it stayed true right down the line.

It just keeps getting stressed upon if you keep losing them. After a while, people are going to be stressed on it. You don't want guys thinking, 'If the game is going to be close, this is going to happen or that is going to happen.' Before you know it, it becomes a complex. Hopefully we dispelled that tonight.

It shouldn't even have gotten to that, ... You go out there with the lead, you've got to come in and put guys away right away. That's a tough way to lose right there.

That's all you've been reading about: Florida is the last team in the National League without a one-run victory. The way Olsen threw, you wanted to save that game for him. He deserved it, to get a win out of it. Thankfully, we were able to come in and hold that lead.

I don't know how many more of these I can take, to tell the truth. I've worked so hard to get back. I'm just going to take this as another bump in the road.