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.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

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

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

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.

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.