Rick Helling Quotations

More than anything, I'm grateful that I got the opportunity again. It made all the hard work and everything I put in over the last two years pay off.

That was probably the least amount of curveballs I've thrown in my entire career. I had a pretty good cutter today and I was locating my fastball pretty well, so I stayed with that all day.

It's hard to win in the big leagues when you're not in the big leagues. I kind of had to bide my time and hope that the opportunity would happen.

It was a good day. My fastball I was able to locate and keep them off-balance.

It will be longer than that, though. I haven't thrown off a mound for more than a week, so it will take a little bit to build back up.

The walks drive me crazy. There's no excuse for that.

If I stunk after a month, I was going to go home and be perfectly happy with my career and live the rest of my life as a dad.