56 Quotes by Jim Leyland

We got good starting pitching again. There's no such thing as momentum in baseball -- you are only as good as your next pitcher.

You get in a catch-22. A club like ours that needs to get re-established -- we have to win every one we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers, because in the long run it will blow up in our face.

I've always been a big believer that it's just as important to learn to handle success as it is failure.

See, that's the thing that pisses me off.

This guy was an all-star six months ago. I cannot tell you how happy I am about that.

There's a lot of things this team has had going for it. It's good timing. But if you had to say what's been the biggest factor so far, you'd have to say it's starting pitching.

It's a Catch-22 situation. With a club like ours trying to reestablish that we can win and compete, we have to win every game we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers.

It's certainly better to see what we're seeing than getting shut out.

The need to get away from it. They're playing too many innings. We've got a gruesome stretch here the next few days. I thought long and hard about it when I went back to the park last night ... I just made a decision that this might make sense.