Barry Zito

“The curveball is my best pitch. I've been throwing it since I was 14.”

“You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.”

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”

“I'm not a guy who is going to be a flamethrower. I'm a pitcher.”

“I would say the No. 1 thing that has been my object in my life is to seek to be one with God.”

“Baseball has been my life, my passion. It's what I love to do.”

“The pressure is something you have to learn to deal with in this game. It's always there.”

“It's about the journey, not the destination. I think that's the biggest thing I've learned.”

“For me, it was never about the money. It was about the love of the game.”

“I got to a point where I was so miserable that I was like, 'I have to do something.'”

“My faith is the most important thing in my life. It's the foundation of everything I do.”

“When you're a competitor, you want to be in the big moment. You live for that.”

“I've learned to just be in the moment, enjoy the ride, and not get too high or too low.”