I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel there is a difference between lovely and un-.

I loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you.

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

Everything in life influences my music.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.