Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

You can just never forget where you came from.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

It's my nature to be fearless.

I'm my own man.

We definitely like to celebrate the wins, that's for sure.

This is a game of failure, for the most part.

I tremendously value wins.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

Regardless if your career is short or long, I personally would rather win more often than not.

If I'm not going to make the pitch, then so be it. I'm not going to try to manipulate the ball or muscle the ball over the plate where I want it to go.

There's a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it's not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It's the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

There's no WAR for being a good teammate, so apparently that means older guys can't get paid.

I was sooo skinny.

I just go out and do my job.

I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

I think if we just stay focused on what we focus on, which is ourselves, playing good ballgames, trying to win every day, don't take wins with us, don't take losses with us, if we just stay with that approach the results are going to be what they're going to be.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.

I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.

You never want to be in a bases-loaded, no-outs position, but dammit, when you're there, you better enjoy it. You better not sit there and sulk about it. You better rise up and figure it out.

There's a lot of different aspects of the game that I've fine-tuned.