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.

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

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.

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've pitched in a lot of big games.

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.

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.