I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Don't rein in yourself 'cause it's raining reigning time.

I never liked you, and I always will.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.