Paul Maholm Quotes (15 Quotes)

It's just one of those things. Maybe we need to just get out there and relax and not worry about whether it's the first inning or the eighth inning.

I fell behind everybody and that's a good hitting team. The third inning really killed me.

We talked to them this morning and they seem to be doing good. They've ridden out a few of them, so they're doing good.

I wanted to make sure I was getting the team innings. I think we all need to start throwing more strikes and letting our defense catch the ball.

When I go home, it's time for me to get away, and we don't have to sit there and talk baseball. It's good just to sit there and relax.

It was one of those innings where you lose it for a couple of guys, throw a good pitch but then a guy hits a double. Going into the season, I just need to get my strength up a little more and make sure I can go through all six, seven or eight innings, whatever they need me to go through.

Pretty much the whole time I didn't execute any pitches. Then they hit them hard ... and that's all that happened today.

You're not ever going to see me start putting my head down. I'm going to do whatever I have to do to get out of it. I'm going to throw whatever pitch is working that day. If I have to throw 75 breaking balls, then that's what it's gonna be. My demeanor is that you can knock me down, but you know I'm not going to stay down.

I was a little nervous. I was just trying to learn from all the guys -- knowing I was going to be one of the first ones cut. I just tried to fit in where I could.

I worked on my pitches. I gave up some hits and some runs, but overall it was good. I threw a lot of strikes and got up to 90 pitches.

You don't want to show them everything you've got. But you want to go out there and compete and not give them a lot of runs. I'm a competitor and, even during spring training, I don't like to give up a lot of runs.

I wanted to challenge him inside, but I threw it right over the middle of the plate. He's hot now, and that's what good hitters do. Maybe I should have thrown him something off-speed. I don't know. But I'm not going to back down from anybody.

At some point it will probably hit me, but right now I'm just having fun and looking forward to it. I just go out and have fun and compete. That's all you can do. I just hope my best is good enough, and so far it has been.

Just something that happens at this time of year.

He's a first-pitch swinger and I wanted to throw it off the plate and I threw it right down the middle. Right then I knew the ball wasn't going to go where I wanted it to today.