Roy Halladay from Quotes

“When I first came up I was just pitching on talent alone,”

“After three weeks in a cast he was back running stairs and after 10 weeks he was back in a cast,”

“In his case, when they do that Tommy John, a lot of the risk of [the ligament tearing] again has kind of gone away. I think from the standpoint of it being something major like that, I didn’t really [think the injury would be serious]. You just didn’t want him out for an extended period.”

“It gave A.J. and the rest of us a better idea where he stands physically. It’s left him feeling a little more comfortable about his rehabilitation. And it was good for us because now we kind of feel that, okay, we can get things done until he gets back.”

“For now, my biggest emphasis was on location, making sure they were quality pitches.”

“Right now my biggest emphasis is on location, making sure they’re quality pitches and I feel good. (Velocity) is something that comes, get a couple of more times out and that will take care of itself.”

“I threw 90 pitches and felt good the whole time. I felt great, there were no problems out there today at all, and I feel good about the arm and should be able to go longer next time out.”

“I had some time off to rest and haven’t had any problems ever since then. It’s kind of disappeared this winter so that’s nice.”

“They hung in there, they played well and the mistakes I made, they hit. Some days you get away with it. Today wasn’t one of those days.”

“With every player, there’s a certain point where it all starts to click. A lot of it is just learning yourself and what works for you.”

“They had some good ideas to start the whole thing, so we had to come back with something. I think we’ve put an end to it.”

“Physically, I felt good. So that’s always a good thing early on — having the health there. The cutter was kind of hit or miss today, so there’s still a couple of things to work on. Obviously, you would like to start better, but I got my work in.”

“Physically I felt good. That’s always a good thing early on, having the health there. Then you got to work on executing.”

“That’s always been a question for debate. I think pitchers never like to go back-to-back facing teams but that hitters sometimes feel like they have a better idea of what they’re going to see.”

“Even in the spring when they had so many pitchers at an advanced age I wondered about how they would do,”

The last start of spring training, my (the cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn’t what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off … trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I’m just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have gone out and thrown another 20-25 pitches.