A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Where do you want it?

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

The trail of dating sites relying heavily on Facebook is littered with failures.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

One who knows more, loves more.

The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.