I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

The only thing I can control is how well I pitch.

I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

Hope survives best at the hearth.

Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.