Jamie Moyer Quotations

What a great honor, ... Roberto Clemente may be the greatest humanitarian in the game of baseball. I commend the Clemente family for this award and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

I didn't locate well. That usually causes problems, for me especially.

I felt like my location was a lot better today. That's a plus.

From when it happened, it's a moot point for me. Carl Everett is going to contribute, and I'm happy to have anyone on our team who can contribute.

He did a nice job behind me today. He was thinking. I was quite impressed. He's made the effort from Day 1 to fit in and to learn.

He does have a little bit to learn about pitching, learning about hitters, situations in games, things like that. That will come. Anybody at the age of 19 is going to be in that same situation. The things that he has that the average 19-year-old, sometimes 25-year-old guys don't have. And that's what's going to carry him.

He looked no different now than when I first met him (in January). He's happy and excited.

He didn't panic, but if he let it play out another one or two more fingers, he would have got right to where he needed to be.

It almost felt like it was my dad back there. My dad was the same way in the driveway.

I say this respectfully. He's a freak. He's a very good hitter without a strike zone. He can hit the ball in, hit the ball off the plate away, hit the ball up and go get the ball that's down. He covers the plate, and beyond.

I was throwing mostly fastballs and had pretty good location. I was able to keep the ball down and work quickly.

That was a heads-up play. I was behind him (backing up), and he saw the throw didn't have enough to get the runner. So he ran up where he could get the ball cleanly and make the throw. That made it two outs and no on, instead of (the potential for) an add-on run. The damage was over.

I wasn't ready to say, I can't play anymore. And I'm still not.

You just have to look at it like you got your bad game out of the way.

Unfortunately, we're playing the spoiler, ... but it's nice to see these small things going on.

Yeah. He's going to be busy this spring.

This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.

To me, more or less, I'm trying to find the feel for it. Where am I mentally? Where am I physically? And try to build from there.

It was all right. It's a starting point. You can find out where you are and where you need to address things.

Sometimes you've got to put up more zeroes than the other team. Tonight I wasn't able to do that.

They are dreams that you can't just go to the travel agent and buy. We tried to make them (the dreams) very unique.

It's a crapshoot. You're dealing with kids, 17 to 21 years old. That's a lot of pressure. Think of all the pressure -- and the money that is bet on it, legally and illegally. It's amazing.

The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.

The key thing to do with them is keep the rabbits off the bases.

I let Guerrero get his arms extended, and while that's usually a mistake to any power hitter, it isn't necessarily so to him. He has no strike zone. He'll hit the ball below the zone, the ball away, and he'll cheat inside and put good wood on it. So you choose your poison.

I'm sure it's going to be a challenge for him. But the way I look at it is, last year, we went through seven catchers. That was a challenge in itself. If I can get through that challenge, I don't think this year will be too bad.

I had to get back in the count, so I came up a bit and he hit it well. But he could as easily have popped it up.

But I sense a fair amount of experience in the room, along with the youth.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.

All in all, I felt like I was able to keep us in the game. We had some chances. And we fell short.