I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Ever since I was a little kid, the last thing I wanted to do was lose. I hated losing. I still hate it. I guess you can see that when I'm out there.

I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer

The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Let brother help brother.