To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.