Bobby Bonilla Quotes

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

I'm looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.

During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Pitching is a priority.

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

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.