I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Never reveal what is real

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

There is something very powerful about German music. That's why I chose German music with a European meaning for the day of my election.

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that youre already dead.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!