Ted Lilly Quotes (29 Quotes)

My command needs some work and it starts with my fastball. I'm confident it will be there at the end of the spring. I felt good, my endurance and arm strength were good. I just need more work.

A lot of times, they feel that pressure.

I'd still like better results than there were (yesterday) but the main thing is we hung on and we won and that's nice,

Every year, the Yankees are going to have a pretty potent lineup, ... and I think I've run into them on a lot of days where I haven't been throwing the ball very well. Even today, I thought I threw the ball pretty well, and I still gave up three runs. It's just a really tough club to go out there and control.

I can't imagine that it would keep me out very long. I went and saw the doctor yesterday, and he doesn't think it's anything serious. But at the same time, if I don't give it a chance to heal and I keep trying to get it going faster than it's ready to, it

I felt like I had to not let it get away, especially against a good lineup like that. You don't make pitches early and they take advantage of their opportunities. We got out of it without a whole lot of damage.

You can't pitch around them every time. They're not the only two good hitters in their lineup.

I felt good, especially in the first couple innings, ... I had good command of my curveball. After the first few innings, I kind of lost the feel of my curveball a little bit, but I was able to keep them at bay just enough.

I'm optimistic about it and I'm going to do whatever I can to be able to make that first start. It's more important that I'm healthy the remainder of the year than make a start here early. But if I can, that's what I'm going to do.

From a player standpoint, I feel like our GM did everything that he could to give us a chance to win. To top it off, we got one of the best catchers in baseball to finish off the off-season. Now it's up to us.

Every year, they're going to have a pretty potent lineup. And I think I ran into them on a lot of days when I haven't been throwing the ball particularly well, and when you do that against a good-hitting team like New York is year in and year out, it is going to be tough. Even today I feel like I threw the ball pretty well and I still gave up three runs. I mean it's just a tough club to really go out there and control.

I didn't feel that good (Monday). I'm pleasantly surprised with how it went (yesterday).

To put it very mildly, I'm disappointed in the way I've gone out there and competed, ... I guess, coming into this year, I just expected us to be competitive in this league. And I expected myself to really make a push to help us do that.

The main thing is, it's not something that I can injure any further. I'd like to get on the mound one more time before Saturday.

It's kind of nice coming into camp and doing everything the rest of the group is doing. I started throwing a little bit sooner to get myself ahead and better prepared to come in.

I don't think ... I know it's a big year for both the club and myself. But it seems like every year that I've had in my career is a big year, whether it be the first one when you're trying to break in and prove yourself or the second one to prove the first one was no fluke, whatever the reasons.

It's nice coming into camp and being able to do the things the rest of the group is doing. I don't want to have to play catch-up in Spring Training again.

I think I realize how necessary it is to prepare for a long season. I thought last year I would be able to catch up and get myself ready to go to start the season. But I was just never as prepared as I needed to be.

I thought we really got the important pieces to kind of put together the club that I believe is capable of winning the division.

I definitely was more conscious of making sure I didn't take any chances on doing something that would set me back. I think the last two springs were kind of fluke-ish. At the same time, I'm more conscious of it, but I don't want to worry about it so much that I don't live a normal life.

I would have liked my curveball to be a little sharper. I've been working on it this spring. The location of my fastball is good and that is my number one priority.

They're a really tough club to go out there and control, ... The main thing is that we hung on and won.

This is the best I've felt. My shoulder felt good, so I would've liked to have thrown a little bit better. My command was better than it's been in a while. I think tonight was definitely a matter of keeping it close, because Arroyo was pitching really good.

I didn't think that would be very difficult. He's been at this for a long time, he knows what he's doing. I have a lot of confidence in him, it's just a matter of me going out there and executing pitches.

My command was pretty terrible, obviously. I can't remember the last time I've hit three batters in one game, walked two guys on top of that and pitched behind in the count so much. None of that was good.

The organization expects me to be a significant contributor and I certainly expect that of myself. When I go into any season, the last four years, I believed that I was going to get the ball 30-32 times, if healthy. I want to be one of those guys who wins 20 games. That's always been a goal of mine. Even after last year, I still have those types of high expectations.

I definitely would have liked to have started. But I just didn't want to make it worse.

I would imagine their legs were getting stiff, ... It seemed like that one inning took an hour. There wasn't one time when I needed to make a key pitch that I did.

I just wish I was more efficient and that definitely starts with command. That's kind of my No. 1 thing coming into spring training, locating the baseball.