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

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.

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 don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

We increase whatever we praise.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.