Dave Williams Good Quotations

I'd be lying if I said no. But it's kind of a good feeling, knowing that the Reds are giving me this opportunity. It's about taking advantage of your opportunities. The situation over here I'm feeling is that they're counting on me and some other guys. I feel like I'm up for the challenge.

We are here to provide the most good to the most people. If they want to stay, we give them food and water. If they want to leave, we rescue them.

We all know as a staff that we hold our own fate. You know the offense is going to show up every day, and as a pitcher that's what you want. There's no room for excuses. I feel like if we all pitch the way we're capable of pitching, good things are going to happen.

During the spring, it's about taking those strides to get you ready for the season, and I'm just going to focus on pounding the ball down. They made some good contact with two strikes, and that was probably the biggest thing for me - trying to put them away with two strikes was a little tough tonight.

You try to keep the strength you built up during Spring Training. The trainers here are pretty good with mixing it up so you're preparing yourself and moving right along so you're not sitting there waiting. I feel like I've prepared myself. It's just going out there and performing now.

It was good to get out there. To get the opportunity to finally show my teammates that 'Hey, I can pitch,' - I know I kind of had a bum spring, but the bell rang and it's time to show up.

It's definitely a start in the right direction. I think the first one is probably the toughest one any time you start the season. It's good to have it behind me.

It's a process during the spring for me, personally. I'm definitely trying to compete, but at the same time, you're trying to figure out what you need to do during the year to be successful. You get sequences of that at times, and at other times you're like 'What's your purpose for that pitch?' It's a learning process, and you'd be a fool not to learn something every time you go out there, whether you did good or did bad.

They're a good airplane. They're safe, dependable, and you can get them in and out of tight places. But if he had it halfway down the runway, he would have been hard-pressed to get it stopped.