Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.