I didn't think he would swing at it. Brandon has hit the ball off me well since we were 10.

I didn't have my good stuff today. I hadn't pitched in about a week and my arm was feeling kind of dead. So I was pulling out more curve balls than usual.

They both have big hearts. Both are good players.

My key all season is to keep the ball down. I know how to keep the ball down against these guys.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'