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.

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.

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.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.

Be still and know that I am God

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.