I'm so secure in myself I couldn't care less what people think of me.

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.

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

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 do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.