Wit & Attitude Quote by Roger Clemens

Clemens is doing the veteran athlete’s neatest trick: turning a bruise into background noise. “I don’t bat an eye” isn’t just toughness-talk; it’s a preemptive refusal to let a single outcome rewrite his identity. The line quietly tells you he knows the media ecosystem he’s speaking into, where every start can be framed as legacy math. By stressing “I’ve had my share of wins,” he shifts the scoreboard from tonight to a career arc, expanding the unit of measurement until the sting gets smaller.

The most revealing move is the conditional: “If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy.” That’s not humility so much as psychological self-defense, an admission that elite competition has a built-in insanity clause. Baseball, more than most sports, invites that kind of torment: a pitcher can execute, get a bad hop, a missed call, a bullpen collapse, and still wear the L. Clemens is signaling fluency in the game’s randomness, and in the thin line between accountability and obsession.

Then he lands on “It was a fun game to pitch in,” a phrase that sounds light until you hear what it’s resisting. “Fun” here is a controlled reset button, a way to reclaim agency by emphasizing experience over verdict. The subtext: I’m not here to audition for your morality play about regret. I’m here to compete, compartmentalize, and come back next time without letting one “should have” eat the rest of my career.