The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.

Health is key.

You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

You have to win the grinders.

You have to win the easy ones.

I think that's kind of the common theme when you talk about any good team. Not only do you have the talent and the type of players that allow you to win that many games, but you have to win the ugly ones.

A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'

When they have the lead, you don't want to fall into too predictable counts because they're playing with house money at that point. You want to try to be creative and keep them off-balance as much as you can.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

I just like to leave it out there and feel like I put in a good day's work.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.

For me, it's more about having fun out there and competing and trying to make a difference in the game in every aspect that I can.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

You can only control so much.

A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.

I'm lucky to be alive.

You have to ride your luck a bit, you have to take opportunities when they come.

Being champion, there's a different mindset.