40 Quotes by Mike Timlin

Location was everything and I wasn't in the right location. I probably hit less than 50 percent of my spots. I wasn't very good today, at all.

I was trying to go fastball down and away. You don't want the guy to hit the ball to left field with power, and he's got some power. Dougie set up down and away. The ball was middle up, and he just tomahawked it.

I was going fastball away and just overthrew it a little bit. It kind of rode back closer to the plate than I wanted.

It hasn't really affected us that much. We've had our own storm going on in the bullpen all year long, so nothing's different now.

Maybe I'm not as old as I think I am. It's an accomplishment. It's a nice stat to have.

We're not 10 games back. We're a half-game back. We've been in first place or fighting for first place all year long. This is not season-ending by any means.

What happened to us happens to every champion. We've seen it in basketball. We've seen it in football. We've seen it in boxing. You see it in every sport. Every champion tends to not necessarily relax, but I think maybe you win and you feel like you can take a deep breath.

The way I look at it, when Wake got hit, he probably could have broke his shin and he still would have stayed in the game. He wanted to be in there and he wanted to win. It shows a lot what he's made of.

I've never been in a bullpen, in my 15 years, that hasn't taken criticism, or been maligned or something. People are going to criticize what you do.