Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!

Some days I’mtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.