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

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

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

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.

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.

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.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.