122 Quotes by Shawn Chacon

When I was on the mound, I was pretty relaxed. I was focused. I don't know what it is, but I'm more nervous before I pitch and then after I come out of the game. When I'm in there, I don't feel any of that.

When it came time to go out and pitch, I realized why I was here,

I'm trying to eliminate the get-yourself-into-trouble part. That's not fun, but it happens. I've been compensating so far.

Through five, I did exactly what I wanted to do with most of the pitches. In the sixth inning, just made a couple bad pitches to some good hitters. That was it.

I know I'll pitch sometime during the season. I'll just leave it at that. I'll be ready to go whenever that is. I had a pretty solid spring and I don't know how much it matters to anybody else.

We heard the cheers from the back field. We didn't know what was going on.

In the simplest terms, I kept the same mentality coming over here, but I also realized I was getting the opportunity to pitch on a really, really, really good team. And I had to take advantage of it.

When I'm able to throw my breaking ball for strikes, I'm going to be successful,

I just look at it as, 'Wow, what an opportunity,'