Jake Peavy Quotes on Baseball (11 Quotes)

There's no doubt people were critical of this from Day 1, but this was an awesome event. There were 30 guys on that (U. S.) team who will be hard to kick out of that locker room. I think it took a lot of people by surprise how intense it was and how good the baseball was.

I feel sick to my stomach. You hate to see anybody get injured, but it's especially tough to see this happen to Adam. I've known him as long as I've known anybody in baseball. It's the same thing he did with us last season. He was out two months.

This is probably the coolest thing I've ever done on a baseball field. To be with this group of guys, have a chance to represent my country in America's pastime, I can't put into words what it means to me.

We didn't do our job, ... We never gave ourselves a very good chance to win, because we failed at what we're best at. You can't give a baseball team like that such an early lead and expect to beat them.

We've been in the driver's seat for so long now, that if we lose this thing, it's not going to be because Barry Bonds came back and the Giants all of a sudden made a run. It's because we gave this thing away. It's ours to win. If we go out night in and night out and play the baseball we're supposed to play, the division is over.

Those guys know that when you step on the baseball field, friendship is out the door. I'm going to do everything I can to get them out.

We definitely didn't want to be under .500. We felt embarrassed when we played the way we did. But this team is back playing the baseball that we know we can play.

This is about the coolest thing I've ever done on a baseball field. I can't even put it into words.

Obviously, Barry makes that team better, ... He just adds another serious threat in the middle of that lineup. He gives Moises Alou a lot more protection. Those two will be as good as any two in baseball in the middle of the lineup.

When the last time you threw a baseball you were feeling a sharp pain in your shoulder,

I don't think we did anything wrong tonight. That's the way St. Louis plays, the way Atlanta plays. That's how you have to play to win in the playoffs, fundamentally sound baseball.