One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.