When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

You win and lose as a team.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

I don't have anything to prove at all. I've pitched in a lot of games. I've had far more good games than bad games in the postseason. I know that some people may not remember that, for whatever reason.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.