Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

[Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself

What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.