31 Quotes by Cliff Lee

I think he's got me a little bit. I'd have to throw two shutouts in a row. I think he's done a great job all year, and if I had to pick one right now, it would be him.

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.

I got to play with some of the best players in the game, from Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore in Cleveland, to here with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels. Obviously, to Seattle with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez, and then to Texas with Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young. It was a great experience. Without being traded I never could have gotten to do any of that.?

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.

We're all confident right now. Everybody is pitching well. Everybody is hitting well. We keep swinging like this, and I don't see a whole lot changing.

To get off to a good start and put them behind us for the first time in a long time is a good thing. They got up on us last year and never looked back. Hopefully we can do some of that this year.

To keep them to one run in six innings, that's pretty good. I'll take that.