Chris Widger Quotes (26 Quotes)

What we have here is a checks-and-balances system. Ozzie says whatever he wants. And Kenny is the voice of reason.

I didn't realize it was up around my shoulders. If he makes that pitch 99 more times, I probably strike out 75 times and pop up the other 24 times. I just got lucky, I think.

I pretty much did it last year anyway, so there's no real difference. I've done it before in Montreal. It's actually easier for someone that doesn't play every day to handle it, so you have time to take care of certain problems. I don't mind doing it. I like to know what's going on. We didn't always have that when Mark was doing it.

I thought it was better to at least play some Triple-A and wait for an opportunity than to not play at all.

Forget winning the World Series. I enjoyed playing baseball for the first time in a long time.

Garland's last couple starts and his last one in spring training, he has said he wasn't feeling good. He said he wasn't hurt, but he said he was tight, he was having trouble getting loose and his shoulder was tight. Consequently, his ball wasn't sinking as much. That's his pitch, and it was taking a lot of work to get it up there.

You know people. Everybody wants to see a train wreck.

It's nice to get out there and get back into the flow a little bit. Try not to think of the memories of last year. It's a new year, and we have a lot of work to do.

He's always in the middle of some kind of controversy, ... It couldn't have happened to a better guy. Because A.J. is used to it, so he can handle this better than anyone else on this team can. ... It's just fitting. If you're going to write a story and say who's going to be in that spot, it's going to be A.J.

I probably will go get a copy of that film and keep it, just so I can say I did it one time. Honestly, in this game, you get lucky sometimes, and sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

I love to watch baseball because I understand it, and I'm a big fan of it. But with football, I can watch a whole game. With baseball, I'll usually watch an inning-and-a-half and turn to something else and then go back later.

Yeah, I've played for seven or eight years. I'm in two or three leagues, including one here and with friends at home. We pick lineups each week, and ...

I didn't play on any of the other teams in the past 88 years here, so I'm not part of that history, ... I'm on the 2005 team and that's all I really care about.

Hitting coach Greg Walker showed us before the game that he gets most of his outs on inside pitches. We were looking for pitches out over the plate and looking to take them up the middle or the opposite way.

I had an opportunity to play in the World Series and actually play in a game and get meaningful at-bats. To be in that situation . . . it didn't sink in until I got home and sat down.

Football is definitely more popular. People follow it more. A lot of guys, even in this room, will plan their Sundays around football.

You can't ever do it on your own. In my case, just getting back here, a lot of people had a hand in that.

I do feel badly for (Eddings). I know that's part of it, that when you're an umpire you take (garbage). You're always going to be wrong whether it's for one team or the other team. He could have made 200 calls right that game, but that play is the one that's going to be talked about because it came in such a crucial situation. It's a tough job.

Ninety nine times out of 100, there's no way I even put that ball in play. Somehow, it hit the barrel of my bat. I don't know why I hit it, or how it happened.

He's always in the middle of any controversy, so it couldn't happen to a better guy because A.J. is used to it. He can handle it better than everyone.

He's the kind of guy, if you're on the other team, you hate playing against him. When he's one of your teammates, you know why he does certain things.

You play against Boston, the defending world champion. New York is the 26-time world champions. The Angels, they just won the World Series two years ago. We should be kind of under the radar. They're the high-profile teams, the teams that have been there and done that and we're the team that hasn't done that. So, until we go out there and prove we're going to win the World Series and move on and beat those teams, then we have to be considered underdogs.

He's not as loose and happy go-lucky as he was but, hey, that's the way it is. When you're a manager, the team lives and dies on your decision and at the end of the day you have to answer for the way your team plays,

He still can be just as dominating when he wants to. I think sometimes now, when he makes a mistake, it may get hit a little bit more often, because he doesn't throw 98 or 99 now. But he's still a dominating pitcher.

(The Daily News report is) just someone trying to stir something up and cause a problem who was flat-out lying in the paper.

I can live with that start 35 times a year.