They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

I've always been a guy who likes big games.

It doesn't matter who's in the box. You go after them and get them out the best way you can.

Every time I go out there I expect to win.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

I like a challenge. I always have.

I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.

I always heard that I was too small.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

Guys think I'm staring them down, but they watch ME for signs. Why can't I do the same to them?

Life is an accumulation of what your Heart and mind has pondered most, a conclusion of all you wishes, dreams and desires.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he’d sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.