“Just to be mentioned in the same sentence as Nolan Ryan is good enough for me. He was my idol growing up. He’s the best pitcher in the game.”

"Instead of being overwhelmed and thinking I have to make three perfect pitches to strike a guy out, I'm just making quality pitches."

"Those two-strike, broken-bat singles you kind of get frustrated with. They kind of hit it off the end of the bat, and it just falls in. What are you going to do?"

"Now it seems like I'm actually thinking out there."

"Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit."

"I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.”

"I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is."

"This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season."

“I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches."

"All I'm trying to do is feel comfortable here and feel the love and everything."

"With our defense, you see how we're out there and just make great plays day after day, inning after inning. It really takes a lot of pressure off the pitcher, and just kind of keeps the game going, keeps a good flow going."

"We're all young guys and we're going to get better as time goes on."

"We have something that's going to last for a long time with all the young guys we have that are still developing."

"I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.”

"Our team is real loose. It's kind of like we don't even realize the situation that we're in right now. We're just out there having fun and just playing our game."

"It’s worth everything to be in the World Series."