Kerry Wood Quotes (17 Quotes)

It's better if people have a choice.

It's nice to get a hitter in there, just to have something in the box. I'm pleased with the way things are going. Today was another step. We got some hitters in there, and we're just progressing.

With the time frame it's going to take, I'm glad we did it when we did it. So we should be ready for spring training, and ready to go.

I like the trend. But there's no added pressure on us because of it. There's plenty of pressure in this profession, period - pressure to win, the pressure you put on yourself to perform.

Mark told me he didn't expect me to be doing what I did today until six or seven days after surgery. We're going the right direction.

It was a different scenario to come into the middle of an inning. It's different warming up in the bullpen. I need to stay loose and make sure to be ready to go in the game when they call me.

I think we felt a little more confident. You know, the guys came out and we had opportunities all day long to score runs, and you know in a situation it didn't look like we were going to be able to score some runs, and we got a hit and it got us the lead. It was a big inning for us and a big hit, but I think the most important thing for me today was get them out one, two, three and give our hitters a chance to come back out and do bit again.

My shoulder feels better the more I throw. I really don't want to miss more than one day without doing something with it.

When I get this thing going and get healthy, it's going to be the way I expect to go out there and pitch. And I expect to stay healthy and be that way for the remainder of my career. ... I came back from the elbow and it's been great. I had the shoulder thing pop up and we're going to take care of that, get going and not look back.

I was walking about 35, 40 minutes after surgery. They gave me a cane to walk out on and I carried it. It was pretty amazing. I got a little swelling, but it doesn't bother me to walk or do anything. The only day I missed throwing was the day I had the surgery.

It seems like about 15 years ago. The last couple years have been kind of rough. It's all behind me now. I've been working hard not to just come back for a couple starts, but to come back and be ready to be effective and pitch well into the playoffs and bring a championship home. I'm looking forward to getting back.

It was nice to go out and throw an inning. It's been frustrating going on the DL three times with this injury and not knowing what the problem was. They will go in, clean it up and send me on my way.

Everything felt good. It's different, but you still warm up, get loose and try to get guys out.

I'm excited now, because we're blessed with a solid bullpen. It will be fun to watch these guys pitch everyday.

They're not fixing anything. They're taking a piece out. We're not in danger.

I got a bit of a small obstacle to overcome this off-season. I fully expect to be ready when camp starts.

Obviously when you can't contribute the way you want to and you miss extended periods of time, you feel like you didn't help the other 24 guys out there.