Jon Lieber Quotations

Since that guy from L.A. (Oscar Robles) hit that pitch that bounced (earlier this month off Rob Tejeda), nothing surprises me anymore.

My agent asked me before the season if I'd be interested. I wasn't.

Personally, I?m trying to win every game. If it happens, it happens. A lot of seasons it depends on your teammates. To win 20 games you have to have a lot of things happen in your favor. You need a little luck.

I didn't have good stuff. I'm not contributing. That's the bottom line.

From the beginning I just didn't have it. I was out of control.

That was huge. There was no doubt in my mind that was the right decision. You have to go for it in a situation with the bases loaded. If anything, I had one or two good innings left.

That's up to him. But I'm sure it's unlimited.

You'll run across games like that that you will lose. You just have to move on. I could tell from the first inning that guys were pumped.

We put a big inning up there and it kind of went on from there.

Yeah, we'd like to be 10-6 or 11-5, but right now we're not. We've got to keep our heads up, keep battling out and just get going.

We've had our (butts) handed to us. But are we going to go home with out tail between our legs? No. We just need to keep battling.

Those things happen. I'm not going to be perfect all the time.

You look at my stats and you'd think I'd been giving it up. I'm throwing the ball fine. There are no mechanical issues. I had a rough opening day, but I haven't been hit hard the last two starts.

You might want to look up the first five innings as opposed to the last four, when they're on base. You're still fresh early in the game.

This might be the only time you might get anything out of me. This is the way I look at it: I just don't know why we're not doing this after the World Series. Guys already have their season in, they're ready to go. Why risk an injury? It's really ridiculous.

It's a tough one to swallow because of the excitement of the first day of the year. You hate to have a game get out of hand like that one did in the fourth inning. But what else can you say?

It was frustrating that the guys gave me a lead, and I expect myself to hold on to that lead. I'm just proud at how they battled back.

It was enough. It's always exciting to pitch in games like this. I'm just trying to make the most of it. The bottom line is we won.

Everybody has to find a way to get things going together. And myself is included in that.

It was nice just being able to help out.

No matter how you look at it, every game is huge from here on out. We don't want to jump ahead. Take them one at a time.

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

I'm not sure anyone ever told me last year. If I am the starter, I am the starter.

I just wasn't hitting my spots like I wanted to.

I'm just trying to make the most of it. The bottom line is we won.

I'm just guessing they wanted to take a look at some more guys over there. I really wanted to work on getting my slider down. The last game it was just so-so, and today it was much better. Today, I had a better tempo and it was much better.

I just focus on things, day by day. I just want to be as consistent as I can.

In my mind, ... that was the play of the game.