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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

I love to pitch so much.