Brad Lidge Quotes

"They did a good job hitting mistakes. Obviously, it's a big disappointment. I felt good, but I couldn't get on top of my slider. I don't know if it was my mechanics or not. There's no excuse. I just made bad pitches."

"Any closer, if you pitch long enough, you're going to face some failure. He was able to bounce back from it as good as anybody. I hope the same is true for myself. I feel it will be. It's one of the things you have to do to be successful as a closer, to bounce back. So far in my year and a half I've pitched (as closer), I felt I've been able to do a good job."

"I didn't want to pitch in this game. I wasn't expecting to. I felt a little emotion because Taylor had thrown such a great game and I wanted to make sure I left everything out there against Bay tonight. Fortunately I was able to get him."

"I think the circumstances today, with a one-run game like that to end it like that, was really emotional for us,"

"That was, I don't know, how many days now, ... It was really completely different circumstances, different pitch, whatever else you want to say."

"That's an honor, to be mentioned in the same sentence as him. He's one of those guy who I look to as the best ever at what he does,"

"Thank goodness I got another chance, ... Obviously, I wanted to redeem myself."