One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.

Connor is my friend... I've hacked. Which one came first?

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.