Randy Johnson Quotes (99 Quotes)

I'm here to win. No doubt, it's been a disappointing year, but I know what I'm capable of doing. I think the game that I pitched today was coming.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

There's really nothing wrong with me. I hit a little wall.

I'm glad it wasn't rained out. I had warmed up, and warmed up good.

In my younger days in Seattle, I used to get rattled pretty easily those emotions would work against me. I think over the years, I've learned how to deal with that and have them work for me.

They actually swung today. The sooner they get their swings down, the better for me as well. I'm not trying to break bats and strike people out, I'm just trying to throw my pitches and feel like I'm accomplishing something. The more I throw, the better my pitches will get.

Actually, it's the last place my dad saw me pitch, so it has always had a little bit of meaning when I pitch there.

Got my work in today, I'll move on and just continue to try and get better every time I go out there. By the end of spring training hopefully I'll be pleased with where I'm at.

It'll be a rough night, a rough couple of days for me, ... Because I felt good.

When you're still making quality pitches in their third time up, you can feel your progression. I faced them three times.

I just said hi to him today. He officially retired

I've pitched some pretty meaningful games, and some games where if we lose, we're done, ... That wasn't the case, but it would have been more difficult. We're three games back right now. It's not insurmountable.

I think Whirlpool has the synergies to be able to pull this off. Maytag is not going to make it by themselves, and nobody does the laundry business better than Whirlpool.

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

You've got to make your pitches, no matter who you're facing. I did not execute my pitches and paid the price.

I was barely a .500 pitcher before my dad died and I got married and had a baby... my wife and baby brought me down to earth.

It was probably one of the strangest seasons I've ever had. The statistics say I didn't struggle. But my standards are different than everybody else's. That has been the case for a long time.

I have been fortunate to be a part of this three times, ... But you could see a lot of new kids in here that haven't experienced this.

Unfortunately, it took a long time to fix my mechanics, ... That's the pitcher everyone expected. That's the pitcher I expected. Today my velocity was up because my mechanics were much better.

It's frustrating, because I knew it was going to be a close game, ... We managed a run off Contreras today, and after giving up the solo home run, it was a 1-1 game. Then another solo home run, and everything just fell apart from there.

Throwing 95 (mph) is a luxury for me now. I'd much rather be efficient when I go out there.

Last week we played well against Carter (in a 42-36 victory), this week we stink, ... It's really, really, really frustrating.

To say our offense won't come around is like saying the sun won't come up tomorrow.

Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

What's impressive is their starting pitching. You give up three runs to a team like ours, that's impressive. Obviously they've played us well, but they've played other teams well.

Obviously, it's a nice honor, but there's a lot of work between now and then.

I was able to get my pitches in and didn't have to extend myself, which is nice. I was just glad that it didn't get postponed. I warmed up and I warmed up good.

I'm 4-0 against Boston and 0-1 against Tampa. It kind of makes you scratch your head.

I was 19 at one time, too. But I was trying to find my way to class in college.

It's been a long year, a frustrating year. But if that's been the problem, I'll continue to work hard on it. To pitch the way I did today, that's the reason why, I believe. Having inconsistent mechanics resulted in inconsistent velocity and inconsistent arm angles. The bottom line is, I've been inconsistent on the mound.

He's a throwback pitcher from the day. The game's changed quite a bit since then, but I can still learn. If you think you know everything that's when you'll be sadly mistaken. If I can take some input that he has and apply it towards what I'm doing out there and use it, then that's a good thing.

This is the only place I've played that it's considered a lost season if you don't make the World Series and win you've got to win. If you make it and don't win, it's still considered a lost season.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

It was pretty anti-climactic. From this point out, now it's for real. The adrenaline will be a little different than it was today.

I've pitched some good games this year where I haven't been that animated, that locked in,

The innings and pitches that are going to be mostly counted on are late in the year.

It's been a long and frustrating year. But if that's been the problem, hopefully I'll continue to work hard on it and pitch the way I did today.

I've been at this a long time, and it's time to sort of step back. I've been doing this for 34 years. When you're looking at the watch to see what time to end practice, that's pretty much an indication that it's time to sort of kick back.

Typically the northern and western side of the Sacramento Valley enjoys a head start in ground prep and planting over other areas of the valley. My son and I drove up I-5 to Willows and were amazed at the amount of water and its depth out in the fields. Usually this time of the year in this part of the valley, tractors are everywhere preparing the fields for planting.

Jason was a one-man wrecking crew. Jason pretty much did it all himself today. I'm glad to see he's back on track and picked up where he left off in the second half of the season. It's a real blessing to have someone like that in the lineup.

Probably the theory of most people that have played the game is they'll go as long as they can until they have, A, a career-ending injury or, B, too old and they've been doing it long enough and the fire has gone out. I still have a passion for it.

That's probably more than I wanted to throw in four innings. But the velocity on my fastball increased, and that's a good sign. My mechanics were a little better, too.

We control our own destiny. I'm sure it'll come down to those last three games in Boston.

I was used to a few reporters in Phoenix who would walk by in passing and asked me how I was feeling. Here, I had 10 guys asking me about two innings in spring training.

I'm still doing my thing at 41, I don't care what anyone tells me. It's mentally exhausting to be that focused every pitch now. It was easier at an earlier age ... It's the ingredient I've missed more than anything else.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

It's a situation that my family has known about the whole time and (I will) just move on from here. It's a family matter so I just tend to keep it private, that's all.

We won 55 ball games in eight years, and that's a good record for anybody. My only regret - that 4-5 season sticks in my craw. I'm retiring as a coach, and I feel good about my retirement.