26 Quotes by Brian McCann

With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn't seem like that, ... If it was a regular-season game, maybe it would have seemed like that. But the atmosphere here, and what we needed to accomplish, it wasn't as big of a deal.

I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuff up there. So I was definitely hacking.

I blacked out from the second inning on.

I felt great when the trade was made, but I also miss Johnny being around. He taught me a lot, so I have mixed feelings. He was great to me when he was here, but now I have to do it on my own.

He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He just really knows how to pitch.

His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight.

has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He was still in diapers when Clemens won his first Cy Young Award (1986). He went through puberty and had already discovered the joys of being a young man laboring in Rome and Myrtle Beach by the time Clemens had Nos. 2-7.

Right place, right time. It was a whirlwind; it all just happened so fast.

Our mentality is that we're going to play the same if it's the seventh game of the World Series or a game that doesn't mean anything. I don't think the pressure is going to get to any of us.