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

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

I don't miss anything I did for a living.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.