B.J. Ryan Quotations

Usually bullpen guys are cut from the same mould. They're laid back, they don't take things too freaking personal, so it's a good group. I knew it was a good group coming in and it was a group I wanted to be a part of.

When you score a lot of runs ? and we scored a lot of runs early in the year ? that makes up for a lot of things. It allowed everybody who was going out there to pitch to relax. Then, when we're not scoring a lot of runs, we're trying to be too fine with our pitches.

New team, expectations are high, you want to prove yourself.

I was fired up. It's Opening Day. Every Opening Day is great. New team. Expectations are high. You want to go out there and prove yourself.

He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want to take away from that, we just wanted to kind of clean it up a bit and keep the deception there. The one thing he really helped me with is staying with what felt natural to me, what felt right to me.

To have that guy in your clubhouse four or five more years shows the loyalty of the organization. The chemistry of this team is great, and to have something like this happen, where you know things are going to be set for a while, it shows the commitment and helps build that chemistry.

There's no better feeling than finishing and the catcher walking out to you at the end of the game and shaking your hand. That's it for me right there, cause you know you did your job, you came in made some pitches when you needed to make them.

I wanted to be on the mound at the end of the game. I had a lot of respect for guys who did it and who did it for a long time and I wanted to be out there and get my chance to show them I could do that.

There was a lot of positive energy out there. I was fired up, it's opening day, the expectations are running high. You want to go out there and prove yourself.

It's there, these guys can play man. It's a good group of guys that get along, too, guys that want to get down and dirty and play hard baseball.

I want in and out. I don't even want to see me there. The quicker the better. I don't like that high stress, walk-the-tightrope stuff.

I know what I'm doing when I get out there. It's just a matter of being consistent. You want that ninth inning to be yours.

I just go in there. I like to trust my (catchers) back there, I'm not a guy that stands out there and shakes them off.

I don't know. I guess I'm going to go out on that field and see. When you sign a deal like this, you want to hold up your end of it.