Quotes by Mike Mahoney

“You come to expect the unexpected.”

“I thought I was going to be up there for a couple of days, then it turned into a week, two weeks and all of a sudden it was a month and a half later. Ill take whatever I can get.”

“It was pretty surreal, ... I got a chance to swing, I was just trying to get a hit.”

“A lot of time theyll carry three catchers, so Im just hoping Ill be able to go back in September,”

“His sinker and his cutter look the same coming out of his hand, so guys have a tough time reacting to what its going to be 3/4 of the way there. They dont know if its going to dive down and in or down and away.”

“Ive never seen [his affect] change. Hes pretty stoic out there. You know hes a competitor and hes fired up and hes aggressive, but thats one of the best attributes that he has, is his mind set.”

“somebody will have the dubious distinction of working what we call ‘mandatory overtime. A steady diet of that can leave the troops pretty demoralized.”

“The pay is not comparable to what were asking people to do,”

“Our careers have paralleled quite a bit.”

“He got the majority of his big-league time after he turned 31. Sheaff kept pressing that on me, telling me there is a chance you can get back up there and that you never know what can happen after that. Thats been a motivating factor for me.”