Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy.

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.