I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

I just write mechanical things.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I can count my friends on one hand.

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I'm scared of clowns.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.