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" I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it. "

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" Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time. "

" I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point. "

" I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me. "

" My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way. "

" I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure. "

" I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting. "

" As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off. "

" I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now. "

" All I can focus on is my performance, and that's going to help me be successful, no matter where I am. "

" Every outing is a learning experience. "

" I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters. "

" No one wants to be known as a six-inning guy. "

" After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it. "

" It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever. "

" If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking. "

" Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch. "

" It's hard to tell yourself to get ready when it's like, 'I need to make this freaking team first.' "

" I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about. "

" I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to. "

" The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently. "

" I threw a lot of fastballs in college. "

" I can pretty much take anything that comes at me. "

" I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher. "

" Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click. "

" A change of scenery can help everything. "

" It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it. "

" Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait. "

" The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too. "

" You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small. "

" In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated. "