43 Quotes by Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you’re an important part of the team.

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That’s the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

You aren’t going to stick around long with just two pitches.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something’s bound to happen.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn’t start.

I’m proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Then you figure out that if you don’t throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It’s more important where you put it.