But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days).

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Andy Pettitte is my friend...I think he misremembers.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

life is not about distance, it’s about direction

All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

History is clarified experience.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.