Patrick Dempsey
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"Patrick Galen Dempsey" is an American actor and race car driver, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd/Dr. Derek Shepherd ("McDreamy") on the American Broadcasting Company/ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. He saw early success as an actor, starring in a number of films in his early 20s, including Can't Buy Me Love (film)/Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and Loverboy (1989 film)/Loverboy (1989). In the 1990s, he mostly appeared in smaller roles in film and television, before landing a lead role in Sweet Home Alabama (film)/Sweet Home Alabama (2002), a surprise box office hit. He has since then starred in a number of other films, including Enchanted (film)/Enchanted, Made of Honor, Valentine's Day (2010 film)/Valentine's Day, Flypaper (2011 film)/Flypaper, Freedom Writers and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Dempsey, who maintains a sports car and vintage car collection, also enjoys auto racing in his spare time. He has competed in prestigious pro-am events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona sports car racing/sports car race, and Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road racing/off-road race. Prior to the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dempsey declared that he would "walk away" from acting if he could and dedicate himself full-time to motorsports.

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He has not experienced a full season where everything has gone well, where everything has improved. He still needs to do that.

He's got a little ways to go yet, but he's in Triple-A ball and he does well handling the pitching staff. He's got a good, strong arm. He's just got to get used to playing every day now and being consistent. No matter what happens, we're not afraid to bring him up because we know he can catch.

Bringing a kid like him to the major leagues to just sit around would hurt. It would set him back.

It's given me a perspective of -- you have to keep working. I have never given up.

We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without her. We love her and respect her immensely and she makes us look good.

Catchers need to concentrate and bear down on their target lines, learn their own bodies. It's a daily thing, but it's only 10 throws. You've got to get locked in. ... Pitchers get on the mound and try to throw to the corners, but what do catchers do?

When I returned to the Orioles as a coach, I turned to Elrod for help and guidance. No one knew more about the organization.

I think that's when I get the most insecure ... it's very hard for me to read it off the page. I need to memorize it, in order to go on.

The biggest issue was figuring out what the pecking order was.

It was bad judgment on my part. It wasn't (Matos') fault at all. It was 100 percent my fault. He did exactly what I told him to do. I have to live with that.

I think it's made me who I am today.

We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand that and show what their relationship is to the city. I'm certainly lobbying for that. I'm falling in love with the city, and I want to spend more time up here. ... There's nothing that makes you feel like Seattle in Burbank.

We were on the waterfront, now we're here. And I think we're doing some street scenes. It's good for us as a cast. We were out last night at a restaurant and we're getting a sense of what the community is like, what the restaurants are like, what the people are like and that will help inform us and be much more specific when we're shooting.

I don't think people realize the sacrifice that went into that streak. Cal wanted to play every game, even in spring training.

We shot everything. We had no idea what was going to happen. If the show was going to be any good. We hadn't seen anything. So when it finally came out and started building this momentum, we were all extremely pleased and shocked at the success of it.

Anything that could go wrong went wrong after the first two months. You don't expect some of the things to slap you in the face that did this year.