I want to be one who has to throw the big game.

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

If you keep your team in the game and give them a chance to win each and every start, what could be better than that? That, to me, is my main goal.

When I was younger, things came so easily to me. It was just natural.

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.

My body and my arm will tell me when they're ready.

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.