Rick Peterson Quotes
16 Rick Peterson quotes:
"It's the ability to take each hitter as a separate game. As a starter, you want to win a minimum of 18 'games.' That puts you through six innings. ... It's a matter of being very tough mentally."
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"We were trying to take him in a direction to grow and he wanted to cling to what he was doing before, ... He was a very limited pitcher. Sometimes, it takes longer to learn from our successes and our failures."
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"We talked, for example, about how Tiger Woods went out and won the Masters by 12 strokes and then decided that he needed a new swing. That was quite a statement."
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"Brian has all those things. For him, it's a lack of experience."
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"Chad started throwing that way because he couldn't make his varsity baseball team in high school."
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"To pitch like that should be a big confidence boost for him. His (bullpen sessions) have been outstanding, and he carried that into the game today. He was very impressive."
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"Firms have been showing strong profit growth by getting by with fewer people, adding computers instead."
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"There's a sense of urgency to win games."
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"He'll be ready when he's ready. He's been highly successful, and successful people make good decisions. He won't force the issue."
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"That's all it is, it's about information. How could you not want to know if there's something that could be detected that could help these guys have long and productive careers? The major factor with this is to reduce the risk of injury rather than to enhance performance."
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"They've all been trying to bend over backwards to make sure we're OK. We'll have to wait and see; they've got a lot to do."
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"It's sort of like that movie, 'Shallow Hal,' where the guy falls in love because of what he sees inside her, not what she looks like. Chad just saw himself differently from how we saw him."
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"I felt, ... like I got kicked in the soul."
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"They are targeting brokers like Savage who specialize in extremely high-net- worth individuals and institutions."
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"To me, that was worth the whole trip. I think he understands that young pitchers who settle into the big leagues quickly settle in not because they're fastball-curveball (pitchers) but because they're fastball-changeup."
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"To me, that was worth the whole trip. I think he understands that young pitchers who settle into the big leagues quickly settle in not because they're fastball-curveball [pitchers], but because they're fastball-changeup."
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