“I’m never afraid, never fear anything.”

“As soon as I cross that line, I’m another person. When I get the ball, it’s the only thing there is to me.”

“When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.”

“The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you’re defrauding everyone.”

“I’m just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don’t consider myself a star.”

“Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.”

“If this is a dream, I hope I never wake up.”