I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.

I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.

This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.

It's worth everything to be in the World Series.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.