I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.