39 Quotes by Cory Lidle

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

There's nothing easy about being a manager, because you're going to be second-guessed. I respect Charlie as a manager, and even though at the time I didn't agree with it, he put thought into it. It wasn't a blind decision, and it didn't work out, but he stuck by it.

The way our bullpen has been used lately, we needed it, ... (The Reds' hitters) helped set the pace early. They were swinging early in counts.

Right now we're scoreboard watching, but right now it's all about us. This team isn't going to give up.

Anything I do right now with twisting, I'll probably feel it. If I had already gone five good innings, I probably would have come out then, but I wanted to get one more inning in. I didn't think it was that bad.