Dan Wheeler Quotations

Today is the first game of many. It definitely gets your juices going. I don't care even if it is a spring training game, you still get those butterflies and those competitive juices that flow through you every time you take the mound and compete against other players.

Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go.

We can't wait for tomorrow. We're a step closer to what we're trying to accomplish here. I know nobody in this clubhouse wants to go to Atlanta. We'd like to have that day off. We're going to try to do everything we can to win tomorrow. All of our energy is going to go into tomorrow.

That's part of our job. That's what we're trained to do. Every time I take the ball, I want to put up a zero on the board, no matter what the situation, whether we're down six or up six. You can't afford to give up a run.

You come out to set the tone, get ahead, work the count. I didn't even give myself a chance. I didn't throw a ball that was close.

Every country my country, and every man my brother.

That is just part of our job. That is what we are trained to do every time I get the ball. No matter what the situation, whether we are down six or up six. In a tie game, you can't afford to give up a run, but that is what we do. We want to go out there and get our team back up to the plate with a chance to win.

I think that will happen. I know there were a lot of guys who were pulling for us big-time.

It was wild. Guys were going flat-out on the field.

That was a total change of events right there,