20 Quotes by Ken Joyce

You gotta (manufacture runs) sometimes. Sometimes you are gonna be a little lethargic.

As we seek to increase profitability, we are undertaking a comprehensive program designed to streamline our corporate-wide support organization and reduce SG&A costs. Fourth-quarter SG&A expenses included a charge of $3.3 million associated with employee reduction and separation expenses, which we expect to yield annualized savings of around $8 million. We intend to continue this process during 2006 with the goal of not only reducing costs, but also improving operational effectiveness.

It's all a mental thing. It's all a grind, and these guys have to handle that professionally and they did that tonight.

That has been part of his development, that's why he's back at this level. Last year he kind of pitched away from contact but he did a better job tonight.

It's huge. To get a chance to get to the playoffs, obviously it helps to win series, and we've done that so far.

It was nice to see (Cheng) go out and compete today without his best stuff.

It was nothing. I just think both teams are tired.

They made a good play. They executed well, but I thought our guys played well today, also. They just made the play in the end.

Once runners got on, he started pitching away from contact. I told him, 'When you get the lead, let the batters put the ball in play.' Unfortunate for him, he lost the decision because of that, but he learned from it.