Roy Oswalt
Roy Oswalt
Roy Edward Oswaltis an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the majority of his career with the Houston Astros. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Texas Rangers, and the Colorado Rockies...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth29 August 1977
CityWeir, MS
amnesia next
You have to go out and have amnesia and next day be the guy,
growing-up school college
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.
cities looks bigs
When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.
challenges
I like a challenge. I always have.
heard
I always heard that I was too small.
successful trying enough
I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.
night given i-can
On any given night, I can throw a shutout.
winning
Every time I go out there I expect to win.
can-do
This is a dozer you can do anything with.
feet complaining tape
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.
baseball biggest early gone groove hopefully memories momentum pitch stadium
This stadium has a lot of baseball memories in it, and to come back here and pitch in this stadium before it's gone is great. Hopefully the biggest thing with us is to get going early, get in a groove early and hopefully get some momentum going our way.
meant winning
To give it to him, that meant more to me than winning it. He didn't want to take it, but that's the way he is,
playoffs pulled team together
To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs is more. We've come a long way, especially the way the team pulled together and started playing.
means playoffs
To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs means more.