I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad