I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

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.

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.

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.

Please don’t be upset. The last thing in the world I want is to see you upset and that too with me. It’s terrifying to see your beautiful eyes turn red with anger.

Percy hefted a bronze grenade. ‘I hope you labelled these right.’ He yelled, ‘Die, Romans!’ and lobbed the grenade over the wall.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

I know I can still play at a high level.

Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.