Mike Lieberthal Quotes (25 Quotes)

The last couple of years I've had constant inflammation. I took drugs for it and kept playing, but after the season I wanted to get it taken care of. Dr. Steve Lombardo looked at me and said he'd recommend surgery even if I wasn't a professional athlete.

His control was off. His ball was running a lot. He made some pitches that were up in the zone with two strikes.

That always seems to happen when you're making a lot of money. And teams always need catching. You can't control it.

Since hurting my knee the first time, I've had problems squatting and doing certain things because the bottom part of my kneecap scruffs against something and causes inflammation, ... Hopefully, this surgery makes it easier for me next year.

You like to win in any game. It helps to build a winning attitude. I think it's a good sign for us.

It's like pitching in Colorado. You can give up a five-spot early, and still come back and win. I told him to just keep going hitter to hitter, and keep the intensity. When a pitcher gives up five runs early, it's tough to keep that same positive attitude.

Everything that's sold in the U.S. has never had a problem testing positive. You just have to be careful, but especially with stuff bought outside the U.S. Then, make sure you keep some of it with you just in case.

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

It's tough to score a lot of runs off of Pedro, ... We did tonight, more so later. The thing is, Pedro's going to make mistakes. He knows how to pitch and you don't know what your going to get.

Just because of how we finished the season. But everyone knows how the fans felt about Ed the last few years. There was a lot of negativity. It's all about winning.

It's time to play. We can talk all we want about how talented we are and things that. You have to go out and play and prove it.

He's high on my Top 10 list of my favorite players I've played with. Everyone knows you only come across so many really good guys in your career, and he's one of them.

I was setting up over the plate and calling two-seamers, and saying, 'Go ahead, hit this movement. And there was a lot of movement,' ... We had a game plan before the game, but we used more two-seamers because of how well it was moving.

It's always a special day. It's one of the only days all season that you're really nervous. It's probably a little easier now, because I've been through it so many times, but I still get butterflies.

It's huge. I'd be afraid to drive it. You'd hurt somebody.

It's going to be nice to have an off-day after a blowout. This couldn't come at a better time.

You think about that stuff every year, because there are only so many chances that you get in a career. You see guys who play 15 years and never get the chance to go to the playoffs. And you don't want to be one of those guys.

Pretty much anything that's sold in the U.S. hasn't tested positive. But you have to be careful with anything from out of the country.

He makes mistakes early in the count. I took advantage of a mistake. He threw a fastball down the middle when he just tried to get ahead. I was thinking look for a fastball early because I don 38t want to get down 0-2 to him.

This is the best I've felt in terms of hitting the ball hard. Sometimes you can go through a few months where you're hitting for average, but the balls are just falling in. I feel I'm hitting it hard. Most of it was just correcting some flaws in my swing.

It's unfortunate that it ended. It was quite a feat, and a great ride to watch for so many days.

I really hope we get Billy Wagner back, ... It's hard to find any closer like him. I put him and Yankees closer Mariano Rivera up in the top two.

I'm going out to dinner with my girlfriend ... so I kinda doubt (I'll watch.

The fastball away is his No. 1 pitch. How many hitters can take a fastball away and hit it to right-center or up the middle He'll have to locate that consistently.

Obviously, Houston's schedule is easier. But I still believe anyone can beat anyone, so they can lose some games. Milwaukee's played pretty good baseball all year. Anything can happen.