I can count my friends on one hand.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

I can count my friends on one hand.

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

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 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.