Anthony DeCurtis Quotes

I went from as high as I could possibly be to as low as you could possibly be overnight.

There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion. There`s nothing to it. Hoffman got the best of me.

He`s kind of like that sheep dog that keeps showing up in the cartoon, ... He punches in, punches out, he doesn`t have a whole lot to say. But you look up at the board and he`s got double-digit homers (10), he`s got (63) RBIs. As I`ve said all year long, he`s hit the ball harder, with more consistency, and made more hard outs than anybody on this ballclub right now. Anytime you`ve got Todd Helton on your ballclub, that`s something.

If I could do it all over again and I was going to get hurt, obviously, I`d rather do it on the field where everybody could see it and I wouldn`t have to deal with everything and all the different stories that came out. It`s a freak accident. It happened. I deal with it everyday. It comes up all the time, and I know it probably will for the rest of my career.

I don`t know, I see all the other guys going up against him, and it`s not like he`s doing anything to them that he isn`t doing to me. He`s just making me look the same.

It`s always good to go home. But these guys will probably be able to push me a little bit more than Dad.

That ball right there I was fouling off to the first baseman in foul territory, trying to stay inside that ball, ... This time, I tried to get the (bat) head out, get my hands out. That`s kind of where I need to be. I could finish the season on that note so I can take that into the Dominican.

So it didn`t really surprise me a lot, ... that he`s thrown that hard off the mound.

I found a hole. That doesn`t happen very often.

It was nice to finish with the team and finish in the same year I got hurt. That way I didn`t have to wait until now to get back. It`s behind me. I`ve moved on and I`m excited about this year. I`m fully healthy and I`m ready to go.