23 Quotes by Ted Lilly

No question, it was a trying year. Mentally, it was the toughest year of my career. I always felt like I could find a way to pitch myself out of a hole, and last year, I don't feel like I ever did that.

A lot of times, they feel that pressure.

It's kind of nice coming into camp and doing everything the rest of the group is doing. I started throwing a little bit sooner to get myself ahead and better prepared to come in.

It's nice coming into camp and being able to do the things the rest of the group is doing. I don't want to have to play catch-up in Spring Training again.

It was nice to go out there and feel completely healthy, to pitch decently,

It was a check-up. Nothing special. It was scheduled. I'm fine.

I want to get ready for Friday or Saturday, Saturday would be optimum. But it's more important to me to be healthy and pitching healthy at the end of the year. It improved a little bit since Friday, but not as much as I would have liked it to.

It's nice to try to figure some things out right now, especially coming off the year I had last year. I needed to have a full spring training to come out here and kind of get tuned in and to try and get back to where I was in 2004.

I just wish I was more efficient and that definitely starts with command. That's kind of my No. 1 thing coming into spring training, locating the baseball.