A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.

I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.