One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.

Matt Cain

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In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.

live city you food

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.

better day start you

I think the bullpen is always a possibility for anyone, but that's not where I plan on being.

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It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

know you confidence simple

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

boy city become stubborn

We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

end place nice house

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

back good you habit

I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

count confident anything i-can

Once your career is over, then you don't have to live up to anything.

live your career you

I seem to play in spurts. Somebody will tell me about a cool game, then I'll run out and play for a bit, but then I'm done.

will game cool me

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

down game think you

You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts aren't in your favor or whatever. You just try to figure out ways to slow the game down to get back to the pace that you want it to be at, to try to get the momentum back on your side.

control down game you

Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

doing everything game baseball

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

just hard guy want

I want to mix, match, take something off, move the ball around.

match ball something want

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

stay you work book

To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.

feeling great win team

I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.

bad think you done

That's what you want to do, is get recognized for accomplishments you've had on the field, not off the field. That's always my goal, to find ways to do that.

find you always want

We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.

deep pen down go