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

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.

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

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.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like.

It's always good to marry your best friend.

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.