Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens
William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is a retired American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseballfor four teams. Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average, and 4,672 strikeouts, the third-most all time. An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, the most of any pitcher in history. Clemens was known for his fierce competitive nature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth4 August 1962
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
We tried to encourage him on many occasions to come out and work with us. He was a big-bodied kid. It was a lot of fun when he started showing up in the mornings, working with us. We had fun and got to know him better.
I've been doing enough work -- throwing and conditioning -- to get ready for what I'm going to do the next eight to 10 days, enough to train with Mac and the intensity he trains with. I broke a cleat off on this hard, red clay here in Florida, so that must mean I'm close to being ready.
At this point, let's just say I haven't opened it. I tried to shut the door a few times the last couple of years, but it just didn't work out.
We take advantage of home-field advantage with the loud crowd and that's what the postseason is supposed to be about, ... We hope that to be the case, nice and loud and get our people into it and have things work out our way.
We take advantage of home- field advantage with the loud crowd, ... and that's what postseason is supposed to be about. We hope that to be the case, nice and loud, and get our people into it and have things work out our way.
She was my strength. She's always my will. She gave me so much, ... I'm just very thankful that she's at peace now. She worked so hard, she was really my mother and my father. She played both roles. ... I've lost a little bit of my fire. I don't want to say I lost any of my passion, because I want to pass that on to the kids.
She was always my first phone call to go out and work again, ... When I told her I thought 2000 would be my last year, she just continued to encourage me to go out and do what I love to do.
College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.
Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.
For me, I'm noticing about the 30-hour mark is when the soreness sets in. I was able to work a lot of that out and come back today.
It's just disappointing, ... I don't like coming out of those and putting Brad in that situation. I know he loves those situations, too. But when it doesn't work out ... you hate to come out on the short end of it.
It took a lot of work from a lot of guys in this clubhouse. It made it worth the wait. It made it worth my decision to come back. Playing this time of year never gets old.
That type of game is the best to be a part of. That's why you come back to pitch. You have to work for everything in a game like that. To watch the hitters persevere at the end was tremendous. One guy fed off the next. It ended up turning into something of a laugher, and that game was anything but.
That type of game is the best to be a part of, ... That's why you come back to pitch. You have to work for everything in a game like that. To watch the hitters persevere at the end was tremendous. One guy fed off the next. It ended up turning into something of a laugher, and that game was anything but.