It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

You win and lose as a team.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.