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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?

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.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.