Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Punpun was just fine again today.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

I think there's always a lesson you can learn from any situation.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.