"Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again."
"I've kind of found out that when I do get into trouble, that when I do have people on base, sometimes the best thing is to throw a little bit more off-speed, back off a little bit."
"All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible."
"I'm not trying to strike everybody out."
"A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day."
"If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome."
"It's amazing to see where baseball can take you."
"Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people."
"It's always great to do something to impact kids in sports."
"You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith."
"I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then."
"I think more than anything, just putting in perspective what this baseball thing means and understanding that it is a gift and I didn't do anything to deserve that and realizing that if we continue to look to God to guide our path, you never know what could happen."
"Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not."
"I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that."
"I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game."
"It's just Lord be with me... Winning and losing isn't the most important thing. He's not worried about the outcome of the game. He's worried about how I reflect Him and how I'm pitching... I think every time you pitch and every time you go on the mound you have to understand that it's for Him."
"Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that."
"It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general."
"I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really."
"I get paid a bunch of money to do this, and so there's a responsibility to my teammates, every single day, to show up and be the absolute best you can be."
"There's a responsibility to the coaches, to the organization, to the front office, to the owners, to everybody who believes in you enough to give you what you've gotten, to the fans that show up every day and pay to watch you play - all those things combined. It's not fair to take a day off."
"I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs."
"I don't know if money is something to really celebrate."
"Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind."
"I hate watching myself on video. I don't ever do it. I'm just too hard on myself, and I always go away feeling like, Wow, I've got a ton to work on."
