If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

Our country's economy is strong, diversified, and resilient.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

[N]ever stop being yourself.