Sometimes trying to find yourself is a lot like swimming upstream. I don't think that he had a whole lot of a plan of attack when he first got up there.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I think the biggest thing is his pitch selection. He's starting to recognize the breaking ball a little sooner. He's got tremendous hand-eye coordination. The more that he gets comfortable, the better hitter he's going to become.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

The p11 is upstream of the receptor, and now the question is what is upstream of the p11.

We played as hard as we can. … Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.