Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

We're at the crossroads, ... where we need to win to stay alive.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.