I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

I don't care how much I'm talked about or hyped. It's still up to me to go out and perform.

There's a lot more to playing in the big leagues in New York than just the baseball part.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.