Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.

Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

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.

Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.