I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.
In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
I love to pitch so much.
I pitched and I played the outfield.
The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.