Vance Wilson Quotations

He was locating. When that happens, the hitter starts thinking. You start playing with his emotions when you pitch that well.

He threw some good pitches early that got called balls, and it just seemed we got in some bad counts because of that. No offense to the umpire. I thought he threw the ball better than his line showed for sure.

He threw a rocket. He's a heck of a player.

He's awesome. He's got as good a stuff as we have in this organization.

You still have to go out and compete. We signed on to play 162 games, not 140 games and shut it down. If you're any kind of professional, it's important to show what kind of pride you have.

From my standpoint, there's not a whole lot different that he could have done. He's passionate. He cares about the players, he backs the players and never once bashed them to the media. I thought he handled things very well and took the pressure off the players. He's taken the fall now for a couple of months. If anything, he might have been too supportive of us.

We're not prepared. That's what it boils down to. There's all kinds of things that are making us look bad now, unfortunately.

The thing that makes it so good is he throws it so hard.

I've always taken the approach of working hard and being prepared. I feel good right now and look forward to winning this year.

They feed off their crowd. They're an emotional team. They get one guy on, and it's like a huge rally. The crowd goes crazy ... truly the extra-man effect.