I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as you can before you go to spring training. Once you get there, you taper down and it's just a maintenance program for the next six or seven months.