Josh Beckett Quotations

I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get out there and get my work in.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as you can before you go to spring training. Once you get there, you taper down and it's just a maintenance program for the next six or seven months.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

Just another game. I've got to go out there and help my team win the game. But it's nice to come home. I've got to just keep my head on straight and execute pitches, and that's my whole thing. Nothing else.

He's Barry Bonds. There's nothing else you can really say.