37 Quotes by Kerry Wood

I was working on locating my pitches and throwing my slider for a strike. It was nice to get out there and face some hitters.

I was walking about 35, 40 minutes after surgery. They gave me a cane to walk out on and I carried it. It was pretty amazing. I got a little swelling, but it doesn't bother me to walk or do anything. The only day I missed throwing was the day I had the surgery.

My shoulder feels better the more I throw. I really don't want to miss more than one day without doing something with it.

Mark told me he didn't expect me to be doing what I did today until six or seven days after surgery. We're going the right direction.

I'm still getting some good life on the ball without the max effort. Everything is finishing toward the plate and seems pretty smooth. My location seems better because of that.

With the time frame it's going to take, I'm glad we did it when we did it. So we should be ready for spring training, and ready to go.

When I get this thing going and get healthy, it's going to be the way I expect to go out there and pitch. And I expect to stay healthy and be that way for the remainder of my career. ... I came back from the elbow and it's been great. I had the shoulder thing pop up and we're going to take care of that, get going and not look back.

Everything felt good. It's different, but you still warm up, get loose and try to get guys out.

Things were going real well and they still are going well with my shoulder. It was better than I expected. A month ago I wasn't looking to be where I was at. It (the knee) is what it is. I don't know really what happened and how it came about. It just kind of gradually got more sore and sore.