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.

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

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.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.