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.

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.

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

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.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

Never remember your failures but remember why you failed.

I don’t do math.

We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.

For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.