26 Quotes by Braden Looper

You get to throw pitches. That's what I needed to do - get in a game. I've said all along that things will work themselves out. I know where I'll be. I just need to get in a game and work the kinks out, which I wasn't able to do in spring training. I felt good, kept the ball down and got ground balls. Even the base hit was a ground ball. It just hit a boulder and took a bad hop. I felt good.

The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.

It would be hard to say no, ... But it's definitely not what I prefer.

These streaks come and go. It's just a bad time for us. That's for sure.

This is probably the most frustrating time I've ever had. It seems no matter what I do right now, it goes wrong.

They were hacking at the first pitch I threw every time. It was a good test. I got ready quick. I got ready in the middle of an inning. I definitely left a few pitches up, and that's going to happen for me early because I'm still in that feeling-out stage early after surgery.

The best way to describe it, ... is you have a quarter-inch rock in your shoe and you're just running with it all the time. It's irritating. You feel like you can't do what you want to do.

As a closer, you never like to get pulled. But it's the manager's call, and he almost made the exact right call. How could you blame him?

I let my team down. I let everybody down, ... We should have won the game.