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

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

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.

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 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.'

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfil their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I'm remembered in a good way.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.