44 Quotes by John Patterson

It would take a miracle at this point.

People seem to be excited to have us back in town. It does have a neat feeling in this stadium.

Compared to the Bay Area, it was a better place to raise children and to achieve a better work-life balance.

You're never out of a game in this league.

They were just much more physical than we were. I'm a big believer that most of the time, the aggressor wins. (Friday), they were the aggressor. Most of the time, we have been the aggressors this year.

This pending immigration legislation is of great concern to law enforcement. Local governments should not be asked to do that which the federal government can't or won't do. We do not have the resources or capacity to serve as immigration officers without great loss to other areas of law enforcement.

This is what I've always believed that I could do. I mean, if I would have given up on that I don't know how far I would have eventually gotten. I believed that I could turn it around and get over the injuries, get healthy and go out and pitch and show the potential that everybody thought I had early in my career.

It was really hard for me to get frustrated, because I felt so good, and I was making good pitches. It was just Hennessey and Bonds.

It's an intense, intense ballgame when you put the United States of America on your chest. You are fighting tooth and nail for your country. Health was a risk, and the risk to the reward didn't seem like it was there for me at this point in my career.