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

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

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

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

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.

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.