Randy Johnson Quotes

"With all the adversity this team has been through, it's very gratifying to see how things panned out for everybody. It's pretty satisfying considering I haven't been as consistent as I'd like to be, and to still win 17 games ... that's pretty satisfying."

"I just wanted to stay calm and trust my ability and trust my stuff and I did that all day, ... I never deviated from what I wanted to do."

"His ability is endless."

"I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?"

"I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from."

"I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there."

"When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough."

"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do."

"The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud."

"I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it."

"Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career."

"I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done."

"When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun."

"She was star-gazing. She was looking up to the sky, and her eyes had a blank look to them. They were empty."

"I pitch with emotion,"

"In my younger days in Seattle, I used to get rattled pretty easily; those emotions would work against me. I think over the years, I've learned how to deal with that and have them work for me."

"Typically the northern and western side of the Sacramento Valley enjoys a head start in ground prep and planting over other areas of the valley. My son and I drove up I-5 to Willows and were amazed at the amount of water and its depth out in the fields. Usually this time of the year in this part of the valley, tractors are everywhere preparing the fields for planting."

"There is still this fear of voting for something that gives legal status even after you earn it--that it's going to be called 'amnesty."

"Communication is going to be 60 percent of the job. And he has instant credibility."

"There's really not one person in this clubhouse we could have been without,"