Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

I was a very weird amalgam of things as a kid.