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

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

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.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you’re stupid.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.