I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish.

Don't search for people, the right persons will come to you at the right time

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.