I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes.

All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.

If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn't surprise you.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

The only thing I can control is how well I pitch.

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.

To hit 100 miles per hour, that's something. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, but it's something I can do and think about.

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

I'm long and I'm strong! To challenge me would be so wrong!

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.