I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

I write out of revenge.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

What you feed your mind, will lead your life.

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.

You have to remember that whatever pressure there is flying around, most of it is on the home team.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.