115 Quotes by Barry Zito

I'm so excited. Man, it's going to be awesome. Last year's Opening Day was a day game in Baltimore, and it didn't really have the sort of atmosphere this year will have. We'll be at home, it's the Yankees and Randy Johnson -- that's just perfect. It couldn't be any better.

That was a pitch that was going to bounce in the dirt, you can't guard against that, ... He was sitting curveball and he got the barrel out.

I wasn't getting the ball down. Balls were staying up in the zone a little bit. They had a good approach. They laid off on good change ups down and capitalized on mistakes.

I wasn't getting the ball down, ... Balls were staying up in the zone a little bit. They had a good approach. They laid off on good change ups down and capitalized on mistakes.

You just learn these lessons and hopefully you only learn them once. I only want to learn the lesson last Monday just once. The key is just staying within yourself. I just have to trust my stuff.

You know going up against a Cy Young candidate that it's going to be a close one, so you've just got to go out and attack the hitters and hopefully come out on top,

Yeah, he was sitting all over it. It was going to bounce in the dirt, but he'd been waiting for it all that (four-pitch) at-bat. There's not much you can do about that.

We're a totally different team than we were in April, ... We're totally resilient. The team confidence is the reason that we do come back in a game like this.

We were playing not anywhere near to our capabilities. But regardless, I don't think we expected to come out and contend for a playoff spot. Things changed after our great run in June and July. Now we're going to be upset if we don't win the division.