For me, it's all about winning.

I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

The business part of the game is ugly.

I've seen so many of my friends get cut and released and all taken advantage of because at the end of the day, we say it's the business part of the game.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I never want the ball above my shoulders until I'm really firing. I feel like I can generate more velocity with my arm path. The way my arm works, there's so many benefits to it - from a health standpoint, as well.

There's so much information now, and that even goes down to the college game. You have so much video, you can watch every YouTube video of guys and mechanics, and so I just feel like the younger generation's more educated than ever before.

I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

When there's too many teams that are not trying to win, that poisons the game, poisons the fan experience, and it creates bandwagon fans.

If you're constantly just trying to go in this win-loss cycle that MLB is pushing, you are creating bandwagon fans, and that's not the type of fans you want to create.

You want to create the fans that are following the team year in, year out.

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then - knock on wood - you see a lot of injury risk go down.

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.

Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

I am in politics to defend ideas, real conservative ideas. Because I passionately care about Canada's future. Because I know that the free-market conservative philosophy has the best solutions to ensure our society is more prosperous, secure, and peaceful.

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

People are fed up of politicians who say one thing one day and another the day after.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

Some taxes are really dumb.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they will have to find ways to lower other costs, or to increase revenues.

We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.

Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.

I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.