I just write mechanical things.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.