The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

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

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

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.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

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.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.