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.

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.

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.

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.

If you have Lost something, there's always something Coming, just live by to see it.

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy.

Although, in my defense, a nonblinking eye rape was rarely the kind of thing you just eased into.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'