Randy Johnson Quotes (99 Quotes)


    I felt the camera incident was a bad start. I wanted to make a good first impression. From that point on I was kinda walking on eggshells (with the media). I made myself accessible but I didn't feel as if I had a whole lot of breathing room after I made a major mistake.

    I know that. The games I'm here to win are the postseason games.

    I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

    I feel it's been a very productive spring training for me. Things kick in when you're facing major-league hitters and you're pitching in front of 40,000 to 50,000 people.

    I love this stuff. At this point, it's not a marathon anymore, it's a sprint. We're running out of games, and every start is critical.


    I really didn't sense that. It's not the first time I've questioned an umpire, but it is the first time in 17 years that I have been ejected for it. It came at an unfortunate time.

    I pitch and my teammates expect us to win and for me to put us in a position to win, and I didn't do that. My slider found too much of the middle of the plate. I didn't have a sharp one going down and away. Unfortunately, my pitches were elevated today, and I paid the price.

    The results will be higher income and property tax.

    When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

    I feel like I'm 24 again. I had the game taken away from me last year. I feel rejuvenated. I've got peace of mind knowing that the knee is fine, and I'm looking forward to going out there because it's like I dropped off the radar. I was a pretty good pitcher before last year, you know.

    I think he did a great job. We had a lot of inconsistencies the first half of the year, and to win as many games as we did says a lot about his managerial skills.

    Johnson allowed home runs to three consecutive batters for the first time in his major league career and four in all during the fourth inning as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 6-2 to stop a seven-game losing streak. Johnson allowed the homers over a 16-pitch span. How do you explain something like that ... It's the one thing that I'll walk away from this game not really understanding.

    I just wanted to stay calm and trust my ability and trust my stuff and I did that all day, ... I never deviated from what I wanted to do.

    I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.


    It's spring training and we want to see what's working, there's going to be games or innings where I decide to just work on this pitch or that pitch, even if we get racked around. Six games, there's not a lot of time to work on everything. I've got a job to do and I just need to go out there and do things and get ready to do it when the bell rings.

    It's been unfortunate with Jorge that he first caught the flu and then broke his nose. I've had my last five games being caught by Kelly, but whoever is back there, I'll do my best and be focused. It would have been nice to have had the body of my work caught by Jorge, so he would have had a feel for what's been going on with my pitches.

    Honestly, I've never thought much about that. It's nice to know. Maybe we should start the season in September next year.

    I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

    I love this kind of stuff. Obviously, it's starting to pan out to be the kind of year I was hoping for. Even in my best years, I've had some bad games. I'm extremely focused and realize I have one more start.


    Regarding the unfortunate incident that happened this morning as I was on my way to take a physical, I hope that everyone will understand that the past few days have been a bit overwhelming and I wish I had handled the situation differently, ... I am very sorry it happened.

    Tonight's game was the most emotional one I've had in a long time, ... I don't get worked up about who I'm up against -- I think it's just being here in Seattle. This was where I got the opportunity to throw every five days.

    The more consistent I get, the more comfortable I get, it's fun to go out there and be that locked into a game. It's been a while. I've pitched some good games this year where I haven't been locked in. That's the ingredient I've been missing.

    I expect to win every time I go out. The way I would draw it up would be exactly like tonight not very many strikeouts, no walks and a few hits. For the most part, I was pretty efficient.

    It's a situation my family knew the whole time. It's a family matter. I want to keep it private.

    Just take a little breather and let the bullpen come in. They did a nice job. I don't need to go out there every time and pitch seven, eight innings.

    Everybody thought I'd be the first one to break down in this rotation, and I was the one who was the most stable.

    I don't think people give Pacific enough credit. We knew they had talent and our goal, defensively, was to stop Richardson.

    I was pretty animated tonight's game was probably the most energetic and emotional that I've had in a long time. It was just coming back here Seattle, where the opportunity was given to me to throw every five days regardless of how I pitched. I knew I would get the opportunity to develop here. This is where it all kind of started.

    Don't get in my face, ... I don't care who you are. Don't get in my face.

    We found that students there were taking biology, chemistry and physics for three years in high school, Chinese students want to take math and science. Those are the cool subjects there.

    With all the adversity this team has been through, it's very gratifying to see how things panned out for everybody. It's pretty satisfying considering I haven't been as consistent as I'd like to be, and to still win 17 games ... that's pretty satisfying.

    I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

    When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

    (Posada) didn't have as much time as Flaherty did to analyze what was going wrong with me.

    It's clear we don't have enough workers with math and science degrees and in a workforce of 140m a cap of 65,000 is way too low. The cap has filled almost immediately over the past two years.

    I don't need to go out there all the time and throw seven or eight innings. You might like it. I might like it. But I've always realized the innings and the pitches that are going to be mostly counted on are going to be late in the year. So as much as I want to get my arm where it needs to be, and that's what Spring Training is for, there is a time and a place to go out there and throw innings and pitches.

    I was just trying to get to class on time when I was 19,

    It creates a real disincentive for business to locate in that state.

    If I would have paid for a ticket to watch myself, I would have booed myself too.

    I think it's a great idea, but I also like pre-kindergarten.

    Children can act out sexually or talk about things that they shouldn't have any knowledge of. Some of the reports come from medical personnel because they may have some type of sexually transmitted disease. That's why we get involved.

    I think you've seen a different pitcher compared to earlier in the year. It's very evident that my mechanics are there, my velocity is there and everything is there that wasn't there on a consistent basis.

    It was just one of those games. They're going to happen.

    At this point, being 41 years old, it's just a few little keys here and there. It's hard to get to know somebody he doesn't know me, either. It's kind of hard to evaluate his input.

    It took me a long time to really find my mechanics, ... But that's the pitcher everybody expected, and that's the pitcher I expected.

    Was the decline in the union movement due to a lousy message, or are they going to try a different tactic that will be more effective It still remains to be seen as all this unfolds.

    I do acknowledge that I have a daughter from a previous relationship, which ended years before my marriage. I have fully financially supported her and have made every effort to protect her privacy.

    The key is you don't want Damon to get on base any way. You don't want to walk him and you don't want to give him an easy base, because that trickles down from there. Then you get into the No. 2 hitter, and you get into all their power. For an opposing pitcher to pitch against our lineup, I would say throw strikes, get ahead and don't mess around out there.


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