Joe Borowski Quotes (13 Quotes)

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 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.

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.

That's what you want to be when you're part of the team. That somebody that guys depend on to get the job done and you're able. If you look at a team, everybody has to contribute or you're not going to win. ... I think the second half guys proved that if

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.

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.

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

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.

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 youre in the process.

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.

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.

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.'

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.