I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.
If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.
You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.
Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.
It gives me great peace to know that no matter how good or how bad I do, the Lord loves me. That's all that really matters to me. Baseball isn't what everything is about. It's about the way I'm being a Christian husband, a Christian father, or the way I'm living my life and trying to be a Christian testimony to people.
It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.
Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across.
I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium.
I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.
When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.
Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.
I've pitched in a lot of big games.
It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.
When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.
I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.
You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.
I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.
He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.
Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.
Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.
It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.
I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.
