When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

You win and lose as a team.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

Spring time is a time for revival of every living thing.

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.