Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.

When you can celebrate with your teammates on just a major accomplishment, there's nothing better.

In previous experiences of being in the All-Star Games, you know, seeing the hometown players and how the fans get behind the hometown players, it's always been a special moment just watching that from afar and being on the other side.

A lot of times, I've always looked at pitching in the All-Star Game as a prelude to how you pitch in the postseason, sometimes how you might have to pitch on two days' rest out of the pen, only throw one inning and then you have to go face the best hitters. That's what you do in the All-Star Game.

Celebrating with your team after wins, that's the best.

You never stay the same - as a pitcher, as an athlete. It doesn't matter what you do, you never stay the same.

I'm a fly-ball pitcher, guys.

Your pitches have to be sharp every time out.

I love competing against the best.

For me, I'm always willing to help young guys, because veterans have helped me out.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.

There's really no secret to this; that everybody's - they are going to have a game plan against me and I'm going to have a game plan against them. It just comes down to execution.

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

You always have to get better.

I've gotten to visit all the parks and put my name inside the Fenway wall.

That's why you went to school, because you realize that, being a professional athlete, there's a good chance you're not going to make it. You need an education, that's why for me, it was such an important decision to go to college and further my education to provide me a safety net in case this didn't work out.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

Turning 30, life has definitely changed - it's changed for the better.

The expectations and pressure doesn't mean you change. That's something that's always been instilled in me, and doesn't matter what the situation or what the game means, I'm always going to approach the game the same way.

Fenway Park is a fun place to pitch in. You've got 38,000 fans all cheering against you. It's an intense atmosphere.

The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you can't be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.

You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

I know how to pitch.

Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

Put as much pressure on me as possible. I have no qualms handling that, because I expect that out of myself.

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

I expect to pitch well and pitch efficiently.

It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.

I've had a better 2017 than I've had 2016, just like a better '16 than '15 and '14.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

My slider's been very, very good to me.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

I don't worry about infield shifts at all - you play where you're gonna play. I'm just gonna pitch my game.

When you allow stolen bases, that changes the game.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.

I grew up with dogs. My wife really loves dogs.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

That's been kinda my secret. You use everything off the field to help make you better on the field.

Look, the umpires behind the plate? They're human. They're doing the best they can to try to call balls and strikes. I understand that there's a lot of calls that kinda are 50-50. They can go either way. And as a starting pitcher, you try to manage, 'Alright, if you didn't get that call, maybe you'll get it again here a few innings later.'

You've got to get better every single year, it doesn't matter.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

You have to find a way to improve yourself.

I really wanted to go to college.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

I'm looking to generate strikeouts in every way I can.