If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.

I don't know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.

I don't know if money is something to really celebrate.

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.

If you're playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that's everyone's goal. But then what? For me, it's about the legacy you leave off the field.

You are not supposed to convert anybody, that's God's job. But at the same time, you can be His disciple and live for Him and when people ask you why are you living for Him, you can show them why and profess your faith.

Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.

My goal is to win just for the teammates and the guys in our room.

Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.

I take a little pride in my diaper-changing, actually.

Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.

Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

There's a responsibility to the coaches, to the organization, to the front office, to the owners, to everybody who believes in you enough to give you what you've gotten, to the fans that show up every day and pay to watch you play - all those things combined. It's not fair to take a day off.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.

Baseball is going to end some day. I realize that as soon as you retire you know, people forget about you in this game fast! There's the next young guy coming up that's always better than you. So, for me, it's just about using baseball as a platform to do a lot of things.

It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.

I've kind of found out that when I do get into trouble, that when I do have people on base, sometimes the best thing is to throw a little bit more off-speed, back off a little bit.

You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.

Regardless on winning the Cy Young, I have one goal that never changes, and that's to win every start.

I'm a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.

The Steph Currys, the Jordan Spieths, those guys are exciting to watch.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

I'm a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song 'Mean.'

You can make a lot of cases that you can take the win stat out of the game and you can still figure out who the good pitchers are, and I agree with that to some extent. But there's something about your win-loss record, there's something about having wins by your name that means something. Regardless of how important that is.

All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.

I watch all the pitchers I admire. I love watching Cliff Lee. It looks easy for him when he's on the mound; he's almost like an artist. He knows exactly how to get guys out.

Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.

I was given a gift to throw a baseball. I didn't do anything to deserve that.

I love L.A. I love being out here.

I've been fortunate my whole career because I've had great guys to learn from.

Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting.

Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!

I don't care how you get the outs. It doesn't matter to me how bad it looks, how good it looks, how many strikeouts you have. None of that stuff matters as long as you get the outs.

I get paid a bunch of money to do this, and so there's a responsibility to my teammates, every single day, to show up and be the absolute best you can be.

I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.

It's amazing to see where baseball can take you.

I don't think I'm going to ever be the guy that gives soundbite after soundbite. If somebody has a question, I'll answer it. But if they don't, I don't have anything to say, really.

When you win the Cy Young, it's like, well, you're a baseball player, that's what you're supposed to do. When you win the Clemente Award, you don't do it to get recognized for your work, but it means so much more than baseball.

I think more than anything, just putting in perspective what this baseball thing means and understanding that it is a gift and I didn't do anything to deserve that and realizing that if we continue to look to God to guide our path, you never know what could happen.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.

Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

Bases loaded and nobody out is a pretty impossible situation.

When you're out there in the heat of the moment and you're pitching, and it's a big situation, you're saying 'Don't throw a ball, don't give up a hit, don't walk this guy.' But the harder you want to control something the more it gets out of your control.