Eric Milton Quotations

I was sitting at home today, and antsy and bored. So I got here early. It?s frustrating. You want to get it done. It?s your first start of the year. But everything was fine. I was ready to go at 7. Amazingly, two hours later, when I warmed up again I felt better than the first time.

I'd like to get out there, and I'll do anything I can to get out there Tuesday. I want to throw to some hitters. But they're saying if I don't take care of this and get rid of it, it could last and be around for weeks.

I can't explain it, ... I guess you have to take it like a man but I'm embarrassing myself. I'd like to crawl in a hole.

My name's probably a bad word in Cincinnati, ... I'm looking to change that.

I was going good and I felt good,

I struggled to get the ball down. I got steamrolled again. One thing led to another.

We've got quality pitchers. When you have that and you have our offense, that's a good combination. ... Once we get on a roll and get clicking - we're doing well now, but I think it's only going to get better.

We watched tons of film, and I couldn't see much of a difference of what we could come up with,

We had to answer to the media after the game, no matter what. There were obviously a lot of games last year, more than any in the past, that I would have rather just gone home as soon as the game ended, just sneak out of the clubhouse and not even show my face, but that's not the way you're supposed to do it. You've got to be a professional, and that's part of it. That's how I was taught when I came up.

We got that nice early lead, and I gave it right back up.

Especially after the year I had last year, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. Things couldn't be better right now. I'm very excited and looking forward to the next time out.

I've been trying to give it everything I've got to work hard and turn this thing around, ... I've had some good outings, but they've been overshadowed by the bad ones.

Someone was just telling me today that he hadn't seen his family for five weeks. That's tough. Two to three weeks is the longest I've ever been away from my family, and I wouldn't want to have to go any longer than that.

A seven-run inning really puts you at ease. You can go out and relax and focus on what you have to do. It's nice to have a lead.

A lot of it was myself and the start I got off to. I've always said it's contagious, like hitting or anything else. When you're pitching good, the next guy wants to go out and top the guy before him. When things are going bad, it can wear on the whole staff and not just one person.

It's just frustrating. I was sitting home antsy and bored, so I got here early. I was sitting around for seven hours, and this was my first start of the year. You want to get it done.

It?s maybe a different angle. It?s been working so far, so I?m sticking with it.

It's nothing I'm proud of, but it seems to have become a part of my game, ... It's not something you try to do, obviously.

The ball finds holes, takes funny bounces, but there are no excuses.

It was a bad first couple innings, but I was able to turn it around there. I would have liked to have been able to try to get out of that jam there in the fifth. I put us in that situation, and you never know what can happen. As a competitor, you'd like to stay out there and keep it at six runs and we might have had a shot.

It was one of those nights, ... I had things working. It was just a matter of getting ahead, throwing strikes and getting the first out. They've got a tough lineup. When you have Howard hitting sixth or seventh, you've got some big boppers at the bottom of the lineup.

After that (home run) I tried to put up zeroes, work fast, change speeds and throw strikes.

Again, I'm not getting it done, ... It's frustrating. I've been trying to figure it out all year. It's one of those things I can't explain. I'm embarrassing myself. I'd like to just crawl into a hole and forget what's happened.

That seven-run inning was the key. We got a good lead, and I was able to relax and throw strikes and go right at them.

I'm not getting it done, ... It's frustrating. I try to give it everything I can every time out. But it hasn't worked out.

I didn't think he was going to go away. It was a huge out. After 10 pitches to get that first out, it was probably the biggest out of the game.

Hopefully, it's gone. I haven't felt it in a couple of days. It feels back to normal.

The injury is long gone. Everything is 100 per cent.