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

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'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.

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.

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

If I'm educated and passionate about a topic, I'll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.