The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.