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 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.

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 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.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

To change the world takes time

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

All things on Ishtar are magical, Dragonheart.

Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.