It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

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.

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.

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