Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so thats my background.

I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?