I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence.

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I’m pretty sure it’s yours too.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.