Nolan Ryan Helped Me With Baseball, And

I Had A Million-dollar Arm, But I Wasn't Thinking Enough About How To Be A Pitcher.

It's Hard To Mix With A Crowd When You're Walking Down The Hallway And Everybody Else Is A Foot Shorter. I Remember Hanging Out With My Friends, Like At The Mall, And Thinking People Were Staring At Me And Talking About Me. It Made Me Turn Inside Myself. I Became More Shy And Quiet.

I Had A Long Conversation With Steve Carlton. He Told Me That On The Days He Pitched, He Felt It Was His Responsibility To Make Everyone Around Him Better, To Lift His Teammates. Thats What I Try To Do.

When I'm Healthy, I Can Still Pitch. I Know I Can Still Pitch At That Level And Get The Results That I Want.

Maybe I've Lost A Little, But I Think Everyone Does Over Time. People Have Been Writing That I'm Getting Old Every Year, And Eventually They're Going To Be Right. There's Nobody In This Game That's Doing The Same Things They Once Did In The Peak Years Of Their Career.