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You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

If there's a runner on third with less than two outs, I clearly do not want to strike out.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

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.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.