Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Oswalt

You have one good game or season, so what? You have to have a career.

The pitch would normally be low, but my ball starts carrying and stays on a sustained plane. Everyone always complains - 'that ball is low' - but then you go back and look at the tape, and it's right there. My catchers tell me, and the hitters tell me, that the ball stays true flight the last five or six feet.

This is a dozer you can do anything with.

I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.

It doesn't matter who's in the box. You go after them and get them out the best way you can.

Guys think I'm staring them down, but they watch ME for signs. Why can't I do the same to them?

I always heard that I was too small.

I like a challenge. I always have.

I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.

I've always been a guy who likes big games.

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

On any given night, I can throw a shutout.

Every time I go out there I expect to win.

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.