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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.