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“For me, my shoulder has taken a lot of banging, whether it's from diving, sliding or throwing.”
“Everyone's obsessed with calling themselves a sports town.”
“It doesn't matter what age I am - I think you owe it to the game, you owe it to your organization, you work hard and you try to produce and try to be able to be out there whenever you're asked to and contribute and help the team win. That's kind of the way I've looked at it my entire career.”
“Getting in the box and facing live pitching is always an adjustment period.”
“A bigger bat obviously has more solid wood, but you can handle a smaller bat better.”
“Baseball is baseball, whether you are playing in High A or Double-A or the Major Leagues.”
“Once you get in the postseason, anything can happen.”
“As soon as you take anything for granted and stop working, somebody is ready to take your job. So until the last day I play, that's the way I'll go about my business - try to get better each year and try to help the team win.”
“Spring training is for the pitchers - it is what it is.”
“My goal has always been to put the barrel on the ball.”
“It's way more fun when you're expected to win close to 100 games.”
“D.C. is such a unique city.”
“You know, you can learn a lot from your past, but for me, the past is the past.”
“We want to play; we want to give people something to watch on TV; people love sports.”
“When you look back at the '90s and early 2000s, pitchers took a lot of pride in it. They got the bunts down. Some of them could hit-and-run pretty regularly. 'Pitchers who hit' was actually a part of the game.”
“I think that's the beautiful thing about baseball - there's not one right way to do things.”
“I love baseball and I know how much America loves baseball. But you know what I love way more than baseball? My family - and my kids being able to live a normal life because we missed baseball for one year, if that's what ends up being the case.”
“It's kind of nice to wake up and feel good every morning.”
“I like to get to work early.”