I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much my letting me down as it is letting everybody else down.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all.

I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid.

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

I'm not a guy who is out trying to promote myself. It's really not me.

I'm not going to change. I'm not going to start clubbing or going out in limos. I'm laid-back, and I'm going to stay that way.

I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.

Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.

Stay with the living conditions within our own life

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

I'm not a big prop actor.