24 Quotes by Paul Maholm

We have to help each other out. We have to keep it simple and not get overwhelmed. I don't think having the youngest staff will have any hindrance on us.

When I go home, it's time for me to get away, and we don't have to sit there and talk baseball. It's good just to sit there and relax.

We talked to them this morning and they seem to be doing good. They've ridden out a few of them, so they're doing good.

At some point it will probably hit me, but right now I'm just having fun and looking forward to it. I just go out and have fun and compete. That's all you can do. I just hope my best is good enough, and so far it has been.

It was weird to get my first at-bat before I pitched my first inning. That helped me relax. I was just trying to get through the first inning. That was my goal. I was expecting to have some rough innings and have to battle through it.

I wanted to challenge him inside, but I threw it right over the middle of the plate. He's hot now, and that's what good hitters do. Maybe I should have thrown him something off-speed. I don't know. But I'm not going to back down from anybody.

Pretty much the whole time I didn't execute any pitches. Then they hit them hard ... and that's all that happened today.

You're not ever going to see me start putting my head down. I'm going to do whatever I have to do to get out of it. I'm going to throw whatever pitch is working that day. If I have to throw 75 breaking balls, then that's what it's gonna be. My demeanor is that you can knock me down, but you know I'm not going to stay down.

You don't want to show them everything you've got. But you want to go out there and compete and not give them a lot of runs. I'm a competitor and, even during spring training, I don't like to give up a lot of runs.