40 Quotes by Al Leiter

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

We were in a bad spot going to Game 5, ... And we put ourselves in a bad moment. But everybody felt good about what the outcome should have been or what we thought it would have been. I don't want to say (the plane ride was) sad. But it was about as depressing a room as I've ever seen.

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

He was a rock star. The little bit of attention other guys or I would usually get would suddenly be zero. He'd be miserable but we'd be left alone.