35 Quotes by Sidney Ponson

I'm in a different situation here. Look at the guys already here. Over there, everybody looked at me. It was hard to try to talk to young guys who didn't want to listen to you.

I was missing down in the zone. When I brought it up, they hit me.

Without a doubt, I would have been (upset) going into the season with this.

You look at it like you're losing 1-0 or winning 1-0. I've had a tendency in the past when I'm up 8-0 to lose focus on a couple pitches. Before you know it, it's 8-5. If you think about you're winning or losing 1-0, it makes things so much better. You get people out.

I used to rear back and throw 99 and 'Here you go, I'm going to strike you out. And it didn't work that well.

After my last problem, I sought help and didn't wait for anybody to push me. I just did it on my own. Since the last time I had trouble, I've been clean.

Defense is going to bail me out a lot this year. I'll have to take some time to take those guys to dinner.

That's why I was in the American League for eight years. It was interesting. They'll probably have me out one day early here to run the bases.

This is a second chance for me, and I'm going to take full advantage of it.