Matt Cain Quotes

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

It doesn't really matter to me whether you start or not. I play a lot of fourth quarters. I think that's what's most important to me. I think that's what I've always cared about, just having an opportunity to finish games when it's really winning time.

In the playoffs, it's not going to be pretty. There's going to be some games where you don't score. But are you going to take a charge for a teammate?

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

In the postseason, every possession counts, so it's the little things.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Ever since I've been at Arsenal, we've had numerous quality players, and the whole squad had been very strong. It just seemed that in the big games we came up short sometimes, and you wonder why.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

As I always say - you have no feelings when you are on the pitch. You are there to play, to give the best for your team.

Whenever I'm on the field, I'm another guy.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

I just think you can't get caught up with who's on the other side. Everybody in the NFL is good. Every team is good.

We must believe we can score in every moment - at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the game.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

I feel like you can dominate a game in so many ways. That's just always been my mindset, just play ball. Be a basketball player, and everything will fall into place.