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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Ordinary people want everything the world does better. Extraordinary people focus on what they do best.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

The mind is smaller than the eye.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.