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.

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

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

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.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

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.

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.