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.

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.

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

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.

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter, " she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

I'm a really emotional person so I cry for everything.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

I am a hooker with a heart of gold.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.