I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

You are all angels, you guys know that right?

I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.