9 Quotes by Josh Willingham

Miguel is a well-respected guy in the league, and that takes a lot of pressure off us.

What we've done this spring has kind of prepared us for opening day.

We've been talking a lot about receiving -- keeping balls in the zone and working on footwork. There is an art to getting strikes. I'm learning a lot and making a lot of adjustments. It's helping me a lot.

There's no excuse for Miguel or myself not to get that run in. It probably cost us the game.

It's frustrating because we're not getting as many runs as we'd like to. We had a good spring, but the regular season is a totally different story.

No. Losing is losing, and you never get used to it no matter if you're in high school or college or the big leagues.

He took a lot of pressure off the offense. We've been scratching and clawing and couldn't get anything, and when he hit that he kind of loosened us up a little bit.

Games like tonight are real frustrating, when you get great pitching like we did and only scratch two runs across.

The main thing this year that I haven't had in the past is I hadn't had a chance to be out there every day.