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 can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I just write mechanical things.

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

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

We're all physical bodies, but basically everything we do is determined by what goes on in our heads. The only person who ever stops me from achieving something is 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.