Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Ever since I was a little kid, the last thing I wanted to do was lose. I hated losing. I still hate it. I guess you can see that when I'm out there.

I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Islam doesn't ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.