It was pretty tough, but I'm glad I made the decision and I'm proud of it. I'm very proud to play for the USA team. I plan to enjoy it. |
It was shock. You almost feel like you have three, four more innings to play and the game is over. They made a 6-4-3 double play and it's time to go back home. It doesn't seem fair, but they beat us plain and simple in the field. |
It was the first opportunity of this sort that I had, and that was definitely good. I definitely felt very proud. |
It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my mom and my wife having a debate for two hours about it. |
It was tough on me. I understand that most people will just ridicule and make fun of it, but unless you understand my background, where I come from and the passion that my family and my heritage holds, I don't expect anyone to understand that. |
It would be a great privilege, ... I think this is the year that anything's possible, because I don't think there's one runaway guy. |
It would have been crushing, ... I know Joe wanted this game very badly. |
It's a great place -- the park in which I've had the most success in my career. I love that park, regardless of the last thing that happened there. I always have a short memory, which is important, because what happened yesterday is irrelevant. |
It's frustrating because we feel like we know what the potential is. We got to get into a rhythm. |
It's frustrating because we had the type of year that I thought could be a world championship year with all of the adversity we had all year, ... We left our guts out on the field. |
It's frustrating because we know what the potential here is, obviously. We have to get back to Opening Night and get a rhythm going. |
It's frustrating because you see how devastating he can be. You talk to guys on other teams and they marvel at how good his stuff is. When he puts it together, he's going to be a force for us. |
It's frustrating, because we know what the potential is, going back to Opening night. Not to be able to score more than one run, we have to get in a rhythm. We're going to be fine, but we want to get started, hopefully tomorrow. |
It's going to be totally up to Joe, ... I guess we'll have to see when I wake up in the morning. |
It's just one game. We can't get too carried away. |