"He hasn't needed it. But he's going to need something like that at the major league level. It's hard to pitch at the top of the strike zone."

"It's hard to identify who's No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Because at different times, each one of those guys gets on a roll. And at that particular time, he's the No. 1 guy for us. ... Every one of them has had their periods of time when they threw as good as anybody."

"He pitched more like he did when he was pitching more aggressively: taking advantage of his strengths, staying away from getting in trouble with his weaknesses,"

"He's shown that he has the ability to pitch at the major league level. Opportunities come in different ways. When you get them you have to take advantage of them. If he makes our ball club he'll probably appear in the middle of the game as a situational type left-hander."

"He's going to get every benefit of the doubt."

"As I told Flores, if we were playing a different team, we may have gone a different direction."

"He had a good, solid year. I'm happy the organization recognized it. It will be a good experience for him to spend some time here and see what it's all about. This is one of the steps that is part of the process of establishing yourself as a player."

"His approach was better and his execution was better. I thought his stuff was good. I kept seeing those radar gun readings and I don't think they were accurate."

"We'll keep them ready to pitch and look for opportunities to get them experience. I'd rather see them come out of the bullpen than not pitch at all."

"It was pretty nice to have both my boys on the field at the same time."

"Unfortunately, the toughest competition comes the last two weeks of spring, and I'm not sure where we're going to be (with the starters). It would be nice to be able to see them all in the toughest competition of spring. Will we be able to? I'm not sure yet."

"You get into competition, the juices start flowing."

"Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition."

"Men often act knowingly against their interest."

"It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work"

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty"

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals."

"He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances"

"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."

"Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw."

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly."

"Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."

"To try to be brave is to be brave."

"Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

"Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

"No story ever really ends, and I think I know why."

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

"Philosophy is really homesickness."

"All that is not God is death."

"I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."

"There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection."

"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."

"People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it."

"The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself."

"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."

"If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence"

"Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."

"It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again."

"Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise."

"You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave."

"You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)"

"You doubt because you love truth."

"I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better."