Woody Williams Quotations

One start shouldn't make someone feel differently about the way they go about their business. I felt I threw the ball pretty good. It was one of those things where it's out of my control.

If they need to trade me, they need to trade me. If they can better themselves by trading any one of us, they should do it. It's not going to hurt my feelings. To be traded, somebody has to want you or be willing to take you.

Barry kept his hands back. That's why he's the second-best hitter in the game, behind me.

I felt pretty good, kind of a strange night. Being wild like that didn't give them any time to lock in on me. Usually five walks in six innings is a problem for me, but I was able to get out of jams. I would have rather given up a hit than all those walks.

I felt like I never could make a pitch to stop a big inning, where in the past I was able to do that. It just seemed like nothing went right.

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Other than two pitches, most of them were pretty much pitches I threw where I wanted to throw,

My whole feeling is that I feel like I let the whole organization down. I gave it everything I had, but they brought me over here to do something and I had the worst year of my career.

That was the best defensive game that I pitched in when wearing this uniform. I don't see how you can play better defense than we did.

You don't ever know if you're going to get another chance to pitch in the playoffs, ... So you don't take anything for granted. It's what it's all about. It's the reason you play -- not for the paycheck, but to represent your organization and be one of the top teams in baseball.

You cannot throw the same pitch in the same location twice to him. I don't care how bad he looks one time, if you try to do it again, shame on you.

You can look at chemistry any way you want. The bottom line is about the team playing together on the field. It's nice if everybody gets along, but . . .

You don't hold a grudge because you have a disagreement with the shortstop. You're professional and you have to approach your job that way. We're all grown men. We should be able to settle our differences.

Bottom line is: You have to do your job no matter what the situation, ... And I wasn't able to get that done.

This is the best I've felt in three or four years.

It's a blessing, ... I'm looking forward to not having a winter where I'm trying to figure where I'm going to be. I'm excited that I will be here unless they trade me. We've got a lot of pieces in place.

It's survival of the fittest. You can only put up with so much. I'm experiencing the worst year of my career. Am I gonna give up? No. Things have to turn around. It can't get any worse.

It's frustrating that you give up a touchdown in the first inning, but what can you do? You can't read too much into it.

It's got to start with me, ... That's what they brought me here for. It's a role I'm ready to take.

Everybody's taking every at-bat together, throwing every pitch together. It's so important to finish strong. We've been playing better as of late. It's been a crazy season for a lot of us, and now we've got the last little push.

It's happened before, and it will happen again. The longer you play, everything is going to happen to you.

It's happened before, and it will happen again,

Anytime you have someone that gets that kind of jump on the ball and can cover as much ground as Mike does, it's a bonus. Anytime the ball is hit in the air, you know it has a good chance of being caught.

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

I know that we're better than what we showed. We faced a lot of adversity and we were able to come back. Unfortunately, we didn't show ourselves too well in this series.

I'm pleased with the way things went tonight, ... I made a few mistakes and the one guy hit it out of the ballpark, but for the most part, I did what I wanted to do.

I missed over the plate too often last year.

In spring training, if you told us we'd be four up with seven to play, we'd all take it. So that's where we're at.

I just think things should work in our favor as far as the home-field advantage tomorrow,

He stayed in tune and had a good thought process out there, and his defense was very good.

(If he stays) healthy, he'll hit 30 homers (this year).

The difference between being successful and not successful is where you're missing -- over the plate or off the plate. I missed over the plate too often last year.