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.

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

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that really matters to me. Baseball isn't what everything is about. It's about the way I'm being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I'm living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people.

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.

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