Bob Howry Quotations

When you see a guy pitch a game like that, the last thing you want to do is give up his runs. I was glad I could keep it right there.

When those guys are healthy, we have four No. 1 starters in that rotation. I don't know if there is another team that can say that.

I was really just hoping to keep the guy from going to third with a chance to score on a sac fly. But at the same time, that guy's only the tying run and not the winning run, so you can't sacrifice making a mistake to put the winning run on.

When you're missing your top horses, yeah, it's tough. But we've got valuable guys that are up here now. It's not like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Things are going well. It's always nice to go out and put up zeroes. Spring Training is about getting ready and getting comfortable with your stuff.

The throw wasn't even close. I threw it behind the runner. A good throw gets him definitely. I just tried to rush it. In that situation, you know the bunt is coming. You've got to execute. Get the one out and go from there. I failed to do that.

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

As a visiting player, it's motivating because you hear their fans get all excited and you want to quiet them down. And that's what we did tonight.

It's one of those things that if we came in as well as we've been playing and they beat us, they would look at us like, 'See, we told you so, ... But for us, we need to win ballgames no matter who it is against.

I'm not only coming back to a city I'm comfortable with, but a team that looks like it has a good chance to win.

I'm happy for them that they won it. But it's still a Cubs town. I saw the celebration they had and the people who showed up. I can hardly imagine what would happen if the Cubs won it. I would love to be a part of that.

I looked at the guys that are on this team, the chances of winning (and) the makeup of the guys,

I definitely investigated closing. I had opportunities to go other places, get paid more money and close. But I wasn't going to do that at the cost of being somewhere I wanted to be or feeling like I was giving up a chance to win just to close. That's why I ended up choosing here. I felt it was the best situation for me and a good chance to win.