Dontrelle Willis Quotes

Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat.

Every day's a blessing, so I'm just out there throwing my best.

The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing.

I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

It's not about the money for me.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

I'm just a kid having fun.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time.

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.