I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.